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Via Nazionale is a street inRome fromPiazza della Repubblica leading towardsPiazza Venezia.
Already begun asvia Pia, named in honour ofPius 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.
The enlargement of this artery was necessary to create a link between Rome's central station and the most populous part of the city, and the new road was extended to the east bank of theriver Tiber by theCorso Vittorio Emanuele II. However, the construction works ripped the heart out of the city by demolishing buildings in its path (including palazzi such as theNational Dramatic Theatre), which substantially modified the previous street's route. On it are to be found:
41°53′59″N12°29′30″E / 41.89972°N 12.49167°E /41.89972; 12.49167
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