In the opposite side to the "Porta del Popolo", the square will open three roads arranged in a fan, via del Babuino, via del Corso and Via di Ripetta, which must be the name of "trident" attributed to the area that was raised. Contrary to the harmony of leads us to believe, the Piazza del Popolo and its reach in the whole course of 300 years. From XVIsec. Ottocento took the first steps the body of planning, related to traffic, and the stylistic development. Indeed, after the installation dell'obelisco central Egyptian high 24mt. , Followed, in the seventeenth century. The realization of the two sister churches of S. Mary and St. Montesanto Maria dei Miracoli, designed by Charles Reinaldi while Bernini restored the "Porta del Popolo". Giuseppe Valadier completed in a modern way, completing the area below the obelisk with ornamental fountains and statues, soaked his architectural imprint, as well as ramps added to trace the spine of "Pinch". A note which is outside the framework "Prime Baroque" - "Neoclassical Romanticism" is the Church of St. Maria del Popolo, built the first time in 1099, famous not only for the two paintings by Caravaggio, "The Conversion of St. Paul" and "The Crucifixion of St. Peter", and the frescoes by Pinturicchio, but also because the legend puts it on the soil of the tomb of Nero, built there to exorcise the evil tyrant dell'Imperatore.
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