Piazza Benedetto Brin is identified by its eclectic buildings in the barocchetto romano style, a design choice featuring decorative chimneys, small balconies, and animal-shaped gargoyles that evoke a medieval atmosphere. At the center of…
Garbatella Garden City Walk
This stroll leads you through Rome's unique 1920s working-class garden city, famous for its whimsical Barocchetto architecture and leafy communal courtyards. You will get to experience a tight-knit village atmosphere hidden just minutes from the busy center of modern Rome.
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1. Piazza Benedetto Brin
2. Teatro Palladium Università Roma Tre
The Teatro Palladium stands on Piazza Bartolomeo Romano as a gateway to the Garbatella district, easily recognized by its circular façade featuring three large arches set between columns. Built between nineteen twenty-six and nineteen…
3. Albergo Rosso
The Albergo Rosso is a large, crimson-colored residential building in the Garbatella district, easily recognized by the imposing clock tower that rises above its facade. Built between nineteen twenty-seven and nineteen thirty by architect…
4. Fountain of Carlotta
The Fountain of Carlotta is marked by a large, jar-like vase made of cement grit that surmounts a concrete pillar. At the center of this pillar, a pink female face with long hair pours water into a small basin below. Located in Piazza…
5. Piazza Damiano Sauli
Piazza Damiano Sauli is a perfectly rectangular space in the Garbatella neighborhood, distinguished by a rigorous sense of symmetry and order. It is dominated by two prominent structures: the church of San Francesco Saverio and, standing…
6. Lotto 24
In the Garbatella district of Rome, the term lotto refers to the original housing blocks built during the neighborhood's rapid development in the nineteen twenties. These residential squares, identified by number, were designed to create…
7. Chiesa dei santi Isidoro ed Eurosia (Chiesoletta)
The Chiesoletta, or little church, is a modest structure in the Ostiense district characterized by a distinct entrance pronaos attributed to the architect Giuseppe Valadier. Built in eighteen eighteen by Monsignor Nicola Maria Nicolai, the…