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This article covers some of the main streets inRome,Italy.
Via Cavour, Rome is a street in theCastro Pretorio rione ofRome, named afterCamillo Cavour. It is served by theRome Metro stationsCavour andTermini.
Via della Conciliazione (Conciliation Street[1]) is a major street in theRione ofBorgo, leading toSt. Peter's Basilica and theVatican City. Around 500 m in length,[2] it connectsSaint Peter's Square to theCastel Sant'Angelo on the western bank of theTiber River. The road was constructed between 1937 and 1950, and it is the primary access route to the Square. In addition to shops and residences, it is bordered by a number of historical and religious buildings and palaces – including thePalazzo Torlonia, thePalazzo dei Penitenzieri and thePalazzo dei Convertendi, and the church ofSanta Maria in Traspontina.
Via del Corso (the ancientvia Lata), commonly known as theCorso, is the main street running through the historical centre of the city. It is remarkable for being absolutely straight in an area characterized by narrow meanderingalleys and smallpiazzas. It is also wider than most streets in the centre ofRome, but still only has barely room for two lanes of traffic and two narrow sidewalks. The northern portion of the street is apedestrian area. The length of the street is roughly 1.5 kilometres.
Via dei Fori Imperiali is a road in the centre of the city that runs in a straight line from thePiazza Venezia to theColosseum.
The road, whose original name was "Via dell'Impero", was built during the dictatorship ofBenito Mussolini. Its course takes it over parts of theForum of Trajan,Forum of Augustus andForum of Nerva, parts of which can be seen on both sides of the road. There has in recent years been a great deal of archeological excavation on both sides of the road, while significant Imperial Roman structures are still under it.
Via Giulia is a street in the historic centre ofRome, mostly in rioneRegola, although its northern part belongs to rionePonte. It was one of the first important urban planning projects inRenaissance Rome.
Via Giulia was projected byPope Julius II but the original plan was only partially carried out. This was the first attempt sinceantiquity to pierce a new thoroughfare through the heart of Rome and the first European example since antiquity ofurban renewal. Via Giulia runs from thePonte Sisto to the church ofSan Giovanni dei Fiorentini in a straight line, rather than following the tight curve of theTiber. It became the most fashionable street for new construction forborghesi and for the Florentine community in the sixteenth century. Today its structures provide one of Rome's elite shopping streets, noted for its antique shops.
Via Margutta is a small street in the centre ofRome, near toPiazza del Popolo, accessible as a small alley fromVia del Babuino, in the old quarter ofCampo Marzio, also known as"the foreigner's quarter",located near to the slopes ofMount Pincio. It is a place with manyart galleries and fashionable restaurants, where before theRenaissance there were only modest craftsmen workshops and stables.
In the 1950s, after the filmRoman Holiday it became an exclusive road, and a residence of many famous people, like film directorFederico Fellini. It can be reached from the north traveling by theVia Cassia or byFlaminia until arriving to the large squarePiazzale Flaminio, and then passing through the city door in the wall that leads toPiazza del Popolo square, from this point it is a walk of several meters to the left of theFlaminio Obelisk towardsVia del Babuino; on the left side of this road there is an alley that leads to Via Margutta.
Via Nazionale is a busy street inRome fromPiazza della Repubblica leading towards thePiazza Venezia.
Already begun as the via Pia, named in honour of PopePius IX who had wanted to connectStazione Termini to the city centre, the street was completed at the end of the 19th century through the ambition of several figures of theRisorgimento to create a "new Rome" as a capital of the unifiedKingdom of Italy.[citation needed]
TheVia Sacra (Latin:Sacred Road) is themain street ofancientRome, leading from the top of theCapitoline Hill, through some of the most importantreligious sites of theForum (where it is the widest street), to theColosseum.