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Trastervere

Ghetto

Beyond the Tiber

The Trastevere neighborhood has long remained a separate city. This district of artisans and traders mostly Jews and Syrian origin has a charm.
The attraction of the district based on its relative disorder. Narrow streets dimly lit at night, no "monuments", houses sometimes lower, sometimes higher, the clothes hanging in the windows and uneven floor tiles. No architectural research, nothing spectacular, but everything is there! The
Rome Trastevere is an endangered, a simple and human Rome, a colorful and picturesque Rome, a Rome "Provencal" cherished by Marcel Pagnol premises. All is not rosy for the nostalgic. There are more and more bars trendy or away more and more bars "more Typical me you die. "Time will tell if the Trastevere keeps its soul.

Martini, Campari,

Vespa, Prada,

limoncello, amaretto,

spaghetti, fettuccine,

cappuccino, ham,

Chianti, appetizers,

Dolce Vita, Rome ...

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Villa Farnesina

Palais

Il Trionfo di Galatea

Villa Farnesina, Via della Lungara in Rome, was built between 1508 and 1511 by Baldassarre Peruzzi in rione Trastevere for the Sienese Agostino Chigi, a banker and treasurer of Pope Julius II. Baldassarre Peruzzi

, waives this villa in the methods usually used as faux marble and architectural elements. It uses outlook painted on walls by painting murals depicting scenes rock representing an outdoor space, as seen through the columns and arches.

The balcony scene was used for parties and theatrical performances organized by the resident of the premises. Many frescoes decorate the walls and vaults. Those of the loggia, is a continuum garden with cycle the story of Cupid and Psyche , introduces stories of Apuleius. They are by Raphael and his pupils.

In a room adjacent to the loggia is fresco Triumph of Galatea the Raphael. On the first floor is the room prospects , painted like a loggia, open landscape which is visible between the Roman view of Trastevere. In a secondary hall, the bedroom of Agostino Chigi, a cycle of frescoes by Sodoma on the life of Alexander the Great with wedding of Alexander and Rossane .

Santa Maria in Trastevere

Located in the heart of Trastevere (above) , St. Mary's Church was probably the oldest church in Rome . Indeed, the Church of St. Maria in Trastevere, was founded in the third century by Pope Callistus III to the location of a reported miracle in 38 BC: a source of oil would have flowed there, announcing the arrival of Christianity flowing to the world. This is also the first church dedicated to Our Lady. The present church, which has the status of minor basilica, was rebuilt in the Romanesque style in the XII century by Pope Innocent II . Some additions have been made in the eighteenth century, but without altering the structure of the Middle Ages.

The upper part of facade includes a frieze representing a mosaic Madonna and Child surrounded by 10 women holding lamps, probably a representation of the wise virgins. The lower part of the facade is composed of a Baroque portico , added in the early eighteenth century by Carlo Fontana (important architect this time). A Romanesque bell tower surmounts the whole.

The interior of the church has retained its structure basilica with three naves of the twelfth century. The naves are separated by ancient Ionic columns. The soil Cosmatesque style is magnificent. But it is the superb mosaics which the reputation of the church Santa Maria in Trastevere. The mosaics of the arch are represented evangelists around the symbol of the cross.

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