Piazza Venezia
Piazza Venezia (Venice square) is considered the centre of the city and the most important point of city traffic, but it is also the ideal place reccomended to tourists to start their discovery of the town, being in a focal point among the medieval and Renaissance Rome and the centre of the archeological one
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In the past it was more simple, divided
into two squares by a smaller palace, Palazzetto Venezia. The square in
front of Palazzo Venezia linked the Via Papalis, from the
Vatican to the Lateran, to the Via Lata, which led to the centre
of the city from Porta Flaminia (Flaminian Gate). On the square, where the
Palazzo delle Assicurazioni stands today, faced Michelangelo's workshop.
The decision to built on the flanks of the Capitoline hill the monument
to Victor Emanuel II caused the destruction of the papal square in
order to give life to a new political-moral centre of the new country. The
modern aspect of the square, after a process of demolition and reconstruction,
reflects the ideology of grandeur and the wish to create the myth of the
Third Rome on the ruins of the imperial and papal ones. On the other side
of Palazzo Venezia was built the Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali
in imitation of the most famous palace. Situated at the beginnig of the
Via del Corso is the Palazzo Bonaparte. It dates to 1660 and
takes its name from Napoleon's mother, who after the fall of the Emperor
lived here till her death in 1836. The roof-loggia is perfectly preserved
and remind us of those days in which that old lady could observe the passerby
without being seen. On Christmans in the middle of the square rises a colourful
Christmas tree which is a pendant to the one in St.Peter square and
which gives a special flavor to the already splendid flowered lawn
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