Piale, Luigi; Wyndham, R. C. [Bearb.]: Rome seen in a week: being a hand-book to Rome and its environs : containing a description of the Roman antiquities, galleries, museums, churches, catacombs and general information necessary to the touristh (Rome: Luigi Piale, 1902)

FIRST DAY

FROM PORTA DEL POPOLO TO THE CAPITOL

Via Flaminia.— Villa Papa Giulio. — Ponte Molle. — Piazza del
Popolo. — S. Maria del Popolo. — Corso Umberto 1. — S. Maria
in Monte Santo. — S. Maria dei Miracoli.— S. Carlo al Corso. —
Palazzo Ruspoli. — S. Lorenzo in Lucina. — S. Silvestro in
Capite. — Palazzo Chigi. — Piazza Colonna. — Piazza Monte
Citorio.— Piazza di Pietra and Temple of Neptune. — Piazza
and Palazzo Sciarra.— Church and Observatory of S. Ignazio.—
Collegio Romano. — Victor Emanuel Library. — Kircherian
Museum. — S. Marcello. — S. Maria in Via Lata, — Supposed
House of St. Paul. — Palazzo Doria. — Palazzo Salviati. —
Piazza Venezia. — Palazzo Torlonia — Palazzo Venezia. —
St. Mark. — Tomb of Bibulus. — Palazzo Altieri. — Church
of the Jesuits.
Porta del Popolo, formerly called the Flami-
nian Gate, is at one extremity of the Corso Umberto I,
and is decorated on the exterior by Vignola (1561), from
designs by Michelangelo. The interior was arranged
by Bernini at the order of Pope Alexander VII. (1655),
when Queen Christina of Sweden, daughter of Gusta-
vus Adolphus, came to Rome, to embrace the Catholic
faith. The two side arches have been opened since 1870.
Outside of the gate is Via Flaminia. Taking this road,
and at about a mile, on the right is the
Villa Papa Giulio. Open every day from 9 to
4p. m. Fee 1 Frane. On Sundays free from 10 to2p. m.
It is closed on State holidays. Erected by Pope Julius III.,
from designs by Vignola. Here is the newly founded
Etruscan Museum, comprising a collection of sepul-
chral furniture of many centuries, from the earliest
efforts of Italian ceramic art, such as might be pro-