Fodor's Expert Review Piazza del Popolo

Piazza del Popolo Plaza/Square Fodor's Choice
Piazza del Popolo, Villa_Borghese, Piazza del Popolo, and Flaminio, Rome, Italy

With its obelisk and twin churches, this immense square marks what was, for centuries, Rome's northern entrance, where all roads from the north converged and where visitors, many of them pilgrims, got their first impression of the Eternal City. The desire to make this entrance to Rome something special was a pet project of popes and their architects for more than three centuries. Although it was once crowded with fashionable carriages, the piazza today is a pedestrian zone. At election time, it's the scene of huge political rallies, and on New Year's Eve, Rome stages a mammoth alfresco party here.

Plaza/Square Fodor's Choice Family Outdoor

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Rome, Latium  00186, Italy

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