Lazio Trip Overview
Follow the footsteps of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the greatest artists in the history of Italy and a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. Accompanied by an expert guide, enjoy this 3 hour private tour and explore the works of this major figure of architecture’s world: visit the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, P iazza Barberini, Basilica of Sant’Andrea, and the famous Piazza del Popolo with the churches of Santa Maria del Popolo, Santa Maria di Montesanto and Santa Maria dei Miracoli.
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Duration: 3 hours
Starts: Lazio, Italy
Trip Category: Private & Custom Tours >> Private Sightseeing Tours
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Follow the footsteps of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, one of the greatest artists in the history of Italy and a leading figure in the emergence of Roman Baroque architecture. Accompanied by an expert guide, enjoy this 3 hour private tour and explore the works of this major figure of architecture’s world: visit the Church of Santa Maria della Vittoria, P iazza Barberini, Basilica of Sant’Andrea, and the famous Piazza del Popolo with the churches of Santa Maria del Popolo, Santa Maria di Montesanto and Santa Maria dei Miracoli.
Stop At: Piazza del Popolo, 00187 Rome Italy
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 Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza, takes its name.
The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls, once the Porta Flaminia of ancient Rome, and now called the Porta del Popolo. This was the starting point of the Via Flaminia, the road to Ariminum (modern-day Rimini) and the most important route to the north. At the same time, before the age of railroads, it was the traveller’s first view of Rome upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public executions, the last of which took place in 1826.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Chiesa di Santa Maria del Popolo, Piazza del Popolo 12 Campo Marzio, 00187 Rome Italy
The church is one of the oldest parishes of Rome, and represents a splendid example of Renaissance architecture, a treasure waiting to be discovered.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Piazza Barberini, Junction of Via del Tritone Via Veneto, Via Quattro Fontane, Via Barberini, Rome Italy
Named after the Barberini family, Piazza Barberini is especially renowned for its centerpiece, the Fontana del Tritone, which was designed by the sculptor Bernini.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini, 00187 Rome Italy
The fountain was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII. It is Bernini’s first work of this genre but it already shows the characteristics of his later fountains.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini brought the fountain sculpture from the villa to the city, from the natural to the social setting. With him, the sculpture is conceived in relation to the water, to its ceaseless flow, to its shape and course, and thus it becomes one of the “symbolic forms” of the Baroque.
The Triton Fountain is composed of four dolphins whose tails mesh together to support an enormous shell on which stands a muscular triton blowing for all he is worth into a conch. The intention behind the fountain was to create a water display that would provide an architectural reminder of the water supply provided by the Acqua Felice acqueduct commissioned by Urban VIII. What the Pope needed was a water supply for his new residence and the surrounding area. Bernini invested this practicality with a symbolic dimension.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Via Venti Settembre 17 Chiesa di Santa Maria della Vittoria, 00187 Rome Italy
Santa Maria della Vittoria (English: Saint Mary of Victory, Latin: S. Mariae de Victoria) is a Catholic titular church dedicated to the Virgin Mary located in Rome, Italy. The church is known for the masterpiece of Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Cornaro Chapel, the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. The church is in the Rione Sallustiano, on number 98 via XX Settembre, where this street intersects with Largo Santa Susanna. It stands to the side of the Fontana dell’Acqua Felice. The church mirrors the Church of Santa Susanna across the Largo. It is about two blocks northwest of Piazza della Repubblica and Teatro dell’Opera metro stop.
Duration: 15 minutes
Pass By: Palazzo Pamphilij, Piazza Navona 14 Sant’Agnese in Agone, 00186 Rome Italy
Palazzo Pamphilj, also spelled Palazzo Pamphili, is a palace facing onto the Piazza Navona in Rome. It was built between 1644 and 1650.
Since 1920 the palace has housed the Brazilian Embassy in Italy, and in October 1960 it became the property of the Federative Republic of Brazil[1] in a purchase negotiation led by Ambassador Hugo Gouthier de Oliveira Gondim.[2]
Stop At: Basilica di Sant’Andrea delle Fratte, Via di Capo le Case, 00187 Rome Italy
Sant’Andrea delle Fratte is a 17th-century basilica church in Rome, Italy, dedicated to St. Andrew.
Duration: 10 minutes
Pass By: Fontana dei Libri, Via degli Staderari, 00186 Rome Italy
The Fountain of the Books (Fontanella dei Libri) was built close to the Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza University in the center of Rome. The fountain was designed by Pietro Lombardi, who had been assigned to construct various fountains for a number of districts.
