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Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

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Via Flaminia The Via Flaminia or Flaminian Way was an ancient Roman road leading from Rome over the Apennine Mountains to ''Ariminum'' (Rimini) on the coast of the Adriatic Sea, and due to the ruggedness of the mountains was the major option the Romans had ...

, Via Giambattista Vico , south =

Piazza del Popolo Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically it derives from the poplars (''populus'' in Latin, ''pioppo'' in Italian) after which the church of Santa Maria del ...

, west = Via Luisa di Savoia , east = Viale del Muro Torto , website = Piazzale Flaminio is a square in

(

) and the starting point of the

. It divides the Flaminio and the

Pinciano Pinciano is the 3rd ''quartiere'' of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q. III. The name derives from the Pincian Hill. It belongs to the Municipio II. History Pinciano is among the first 15 '' quartieri'' of the city, originally delimi ...

quarters.

Description

The square extends just outside the Aurelian Walls.

Porta del Popolo The Porta del Popolo, or Porta Flaminia, is a city gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome that marks the border between Piazza del Popolo and Piazzale Flaminio. History The previous name was ''Porta Flaminia'', because the consular Via Flaminia p ...

, on its south side, connects it to

. On its east side there are the neoclassical

propylaea In ancient Greek architecture, a propylaea, propylea or propylaia (; Greek: προπύλαια) is a monumental gateway. They are seen as a partition, specifically for separating the secular and religious pieces of a city. The prototypical Gree ...

giving access to

Villa Borghese Villa Borghese or Villa Borghese Pinciana ('Borghese family{{!Borghese villa on the Pincian Hill') is the villa built by the architect Flaminio Ponzio (and, after his death, finished by his assistant Giovanni Vasanzio), developing sketches by Scip ...

, designed by

Luigi Canina Luigi Canina ( Casale Monferrato, 1795 – Florence, 1856) was an Italian archaeologist and architect. Luigi Canina, Italian architect and archeologist, was born in Casale Monferrato in 1795 and died in Florence in 1856. He was a pupil of Ferd ...

Transports

Bus stop (

ATAC ATAC, or Atac, may refer to: * Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, a U.S. government contractor which operates foreign military aircraft for training purposes * Anti-Terrorist Action Command, a fictional police organization in the 1981 movie ''N ...

) *

Italian traffic signs - icona metropolitana inv 2

Metro stop ('' Flaminio - Piazza del Popolo'', line A) * Aiga railtransportation 25

Railway station ('' Piazzale Flaminio station'')

Image gallery

File:Rom, Piazzale Flaminio, das Propylon zur Viale Giorgio Washington.JPG, The propylaea of Villa Borghese File:Roma--rom-atac-sl-747706.jpg, The access to the metro stop Flaminio Rome Q. I Flaminio