A glimpse of Piazza dell’Orologio from via dei Banchi Nuovi in Rome.
Getting lost in the eternal city is probably the most refined way to explore hidden art and history.
Every glimpse, every alley, every square… hides some ancient or very ancient masterpiece.
Here we are in the Ponte neighborhood, so called because of the original presence (later excluded), within its borders, of Ponte Sant’Angelo.
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Piazza dell’Orologio (formerly also called Piazza dei Rigattieri and Piazza di Monte Giordano) is a square located between Via dei Banchi Nuovi and Via del Governo Vecchio, and Via di Monte Giordano in Rome in the Ponte district. The name of the square derives from the clock placed on the tower of the Filippini convent, built by Francesco Borromini in 1648, under the clock face, there is a mosaic by Pietro da Cortona depicting the “Madonna della Vallicella”.
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