via Giulia
Rome, Italy
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The Via Giulia is a Renaissance street in Rome running along the eastern bank of the Tiber from Piazza San Vincenzo Pallotti near Ponte Sisto to Piazza dell'Oro, about one kilometre in length. Commissioned in 1508 by Pope Julius II to the architect Donato Bramante, it was one of the first major urban planning projects in Renaissance papal Rome, conceived with three principal aims: to create a primary thoroughfare within a new street system overlaying medieval Rome's labyrinthine alleys; to establish a grand avenue lined with sumptuous buildings that would testify to the Church's renewed magnificence; and to found a new administrative and banking centre near the Vatican, independent of the traditional Capitoline-based city seat. Despite interruptions following the 1511 peace treaty and the pope's death in 1513, the street immediately became a major Renaissance hub, attracting the era's preeminent architects—including Raphael and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger—as well as noble families and representatives of European nations and Italian city-states. The Baroque period saw continued construction by Francesco Borromini, Carlo Maderno, and Giacomo della Porta, transforming the street into a favored locale for Roman nobility and the site of tournaments, festivities, and carnival processions.
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