Piazza d'Aracoeli

Very clean and we'll designed piazza

Very much enjoyed the walk there

Perfect place to rest during your sightseeing. Multiple benches to sit on and good shade from the many trees.

Wow! This is a beautiful site of Rome. Any direction I turn I feel like I am timetraveling.

You must not have kids with. The area is beautiful but too crowded.

Small and cosy park in the middle of city centre of Rome. Here you could sit in the bench and rest in the shadow of trees. Close to you could find Piazza Venezia and the Altar, bus stops and Forum Romanum. Great place in great place

Easily overlooked as the piazza venetia is more famous , this small stretch with trees is actually very relaxing for a stop between the campidoglio and via del corso. Unfortunately surrounded by traffic, but in the evening very agreeable. There are also benches to sit on and enjoy the view of the monuments nearby

Piazza d'Aracoeli is a square of Rome (Italy), placed at the base of the Capitoline Hill, in the Rione X Campitelli. The present aspect of the square is not the cozy one it had one time: one of the sides was destroyed during the demolitions for the building of the Vittoriano, begun in 1885, and later in the 1930s the whole area of the Capitoline Hill was isolated. The square was formerly called Market Square; it was divided into two part, the Mercato, at the slopes of the Capitoline Hill, and the Mercatello , at the opposite side northward. The two toponyms recurred in the dedication of two nearby churches: San Biagio del Mercato, later called Chiesa di Santa Rita da Cascia in Campitelli, still existing but relocated elsewhere, and San Giovanni in Mercatello, later Chiesa di San Venanzio, still remembered in the toponymy. In the surroundings of the square, probably where nowadays the Palazzo Muti Bussi and the Palazzo Astalli rise, two of the many towers of the town stood: the Torre del Mercato and the Torre del Cancelliere. The market served not just as a place for commerce, but as a stage for politic debates and religious homilies as well. In 1442 the words of St. Bernardino of Siena against gambling and usury resounded. In 1551 St. Ignatius of Loyola opened his first school of grammar and Christian doctrine, from which the Collegio Romano sourced, and held his first spiritual exercises. In 1713 Rosa Venerini opened the first Roman house of the Maestre Pie Venerini, the first women's public school in Italy. The buildings in the square include the Palazzo Muti-Bussi, the Palazzo Fani (now Pecci-Blunt) and the Palazzo Massimo di Rignano, then Colonna, while the central feature is the fountain designed by Giacomo della Porta and realized in 1589 by Andrea Brasca, Pietro Gucci and Pace Naldini. The complicated demolitions Piazza d'Aracoeli has been subjected to, if on one hand have ruined the scenic design that Michelangelo used for the adjustment of the Capitoline Hill, on the other hand have opened a striking view on an outstanding urban landscape: from it is it possible to admire with a single glance the Quirinal Hill, the Trajan's Forum with its column and the Torre delle Milizie at the back, the two churches of Santa Maria di Loreto and of the Santissimo Nome di Maria, Palazzo Venezia and the buildings of the "Angelicum" cloister.