The Piazza del Popolo is distinguished by its vast, elliptical shape and the thirty-five-hundred-year-old Egyptian obelisk standing at its center. For centuries, this space served as the ceremonial gateway for travelers arriving in Rome…
Rome Classic Movie Locations
This walking route traces the steps of stars like Audrey Hepburn and Marcello Mastroianni, visiting iconic backdrops from Roman Holiday, La Dolce Vita, and other mid-century cinema classics.
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1. Piazza del Popolo
2. Via Margutta, 51
Via Margutta fifty-one is marked by an arched wooden entrance that leads into a quiet, open courtyard. This building, a centerpiece of the historic Campo Marzio neighborhood, is recognized by many as the residence of the fictional…
3. Spanish Steps
The Spanish Steps form a monumental, curving travertine staircase of one hundred and thirty-five steps that climbs the steep slope between the Piazza di Spagna below and the Trinità dei Monti church above. While the name links them to the…
4. Palazzo Barberini
Palazzo Barberini is a seventeenth-century Baroque palace that extends its wings toward the piazza like an open, U-shaped embrace. Built starting in sixteen twenty-five for the newly elected Pope Urban VIII, the structure broke from the…
5. Fontana del Tritone
The Fontana del Tritone sits in the center of the bustling Piazza Barberini, marked by a muscular sea god kneeling on a scallop shell. Sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini between sixteen forty-two and sixteen forty-three, this travertine…
6. Harry's Bar
Harry's Bar on Via Vittorio Veneto is distinguished by its history as a centerpiece of the city's nightlife during the late nineteen fifties and early nineteen sixties. Originally opened in nineteen eighteen as a tea salon called the…
7. Porta Pinciana
The Porta Pinciana is a travertine arch framed by two asymmetrical, rounded towers, set directly into the ancient Aurelian Walls. Originally constructed as a minor pedestrian passage at the end of the third century, it was expanded in the…