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  The neighbourhood “Tridente” is considered the heart of the centre of Rome: it is made up of three straight streets that, starting from Piazza del Popolo, go towards Piazza Venezia with an infinite number of wonders, such as the facades of noble palaces, baroque churches and eighteenth century aedicules.
  This district was the place where, in the 18th century, the Grand Tour began, the educational journey undertaken by the scions of aristocratic houses all over Europe.
  The development of the area of Piazza del Popolo is linked to the history of pilgrimages, especially from 1300, the year in which the Holy Year was established: inns, shops and stables were built around all the Basilicas. Porta Flaminia, the northern entrance to the city, was an obligatory passage for the majority of pilgrims, so the first “tourist” district of the city was built around it.

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  Also in this Roman quarter Wolfgang Goethe “imagined and wrote immortal things”, as can be read on a commemorative plaque in Via del Corso, where the author wrote his Journey to Italy, an account of a Grand Tour he made between 1786 and 1788.
  “Rome is now the capital of the world”, wrote Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1819 who, with John William Keats, lived at the foot of the Spanish Steps. Nicolas Poussin, Franz Lizt and Carolina, wife of the Prince of Wittgenstein, as well as Madame Recamier and Richard Wagner stayed in the same area.
  Many were the Russians who came to Rome and the Hotel de Russie, in Via del Babuino, is dedicated to them. Inside there is the small square Valadier, with its terraced gardens designed at the end of the 18th century by the architect Giuseppe Valadier, surrounded by palm trees, yew trees and white roses. Prince Jerome Bonaparte lived and died at the Hotel De Russie in 1891.

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  Near Piazza del Popolo and the Pincio was built the house where Giuseppe Valadier lived and died. In the same street there is the workshop of his father, Luigi Valadier, a great 18th century silversmith.
  In Via del Babuino n° 100 there is the atelier of Adamo Tadolini, founder of the family of sculptors, but also a beautiful bar/museum surrounded by statues and plaster casts by Antonio Canova his master. The Babuino Fountain, built around 1580, reminded the Roman people of a monkey, so it was named “er babuino” by the Romans. The statue of the Silenus in popular tradition became part of the group of “talking statues” on which the anonymous complaints of the Romans, known as “pasquinate”, were usually posted.

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  More recent are the Stolpersteins: also called “stumbling blocks”, they force the person who notices them to look down, not only materially, but also ideally, remembering the fate of the victims of the Nazi extermination.

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  After the film Vacanze romane, via Margutta, already via dei poeti, became an exclusive street, residence of famous people and atelier of artists. Here lived the director Federico Fellini, Anna Magnani, Giorgio de Chirico and the painter Novella Parigini.

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  In Via Ripetta you will find two commemorative plaques dedicated to the enlightened journalist Eleonora Pimentel Fonseca and her companions of the Neapolitan Republic of 1799.
  This is also the birthplace of Angelo Brunetti, known as the Ciceruacchio during the Roman Republic of 1849, later shot by the Austrians.
  Between Via delle Colonnette and Via Antonio Canova there is Antonio Canova’s House-Studio, a simple building with arched doors and windows, characterized by numerous fragments of statues, architraves and sculptures of ancient Rome. In Rome the artist created some of his most beautiful works, such as “Amore e Psiche”, “Le Tre Grazie” and the statue dedicated to Paolina Borghese.

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