Porta del Popolo

Porta del Popolo was built by Pope Sixtus IV (Della Rovere) for the Jubilee Year 1475, at the starting point of Via Flaminia linking Rome with Brindisi, where the previous Roman gate was half buried due to the floods of the Tiber. The gate was modified during the centuries (like the addition of the two side gates) by various artists, Bernini included.

Best tour of my entire Europe trip. Our guide go into a little bit too much history at the beginning but his story telling via humor and jokes were on point and kept my sister and I engaged through out! We learned about and found the tour very memorable.

Big Piazza but the Santa Maria Churches are behind you, so turn around. Thus a big Piazza and they always got something going on. Today the Athletico Running event sponsored by Reebok was today and this was the Finish Line.

Beautiful & historic place but very dirty and no friendly area

Impressive arch will greet you with its rich history. This is popular with tourist so expect large crowds. I think it's helpful to visit with a guide as they'll be able to walk you through history.

Lovely old gate at entry of piazza del popolo. Beautiful old gate. Amazing construction.

It looks like any other park's gateway and facade when you stare at it from across the street. but once you get closer to the arched doorway, the grand view that is laid out before you is just amazing. this historic gateway is just the entrance to what seems like a religious ground....but is actually a very expensive place to shop, what with all the Prada, LV, YSL, Mont Blanc et el all around

?One of Rome's main entrance gates. Papal arms are present on the gate. Dates back 1500s. The previous name was Porta Flaminia, because the consular Via Flaminia passed, as it passes even now, through it (in ancient times, Via Flaminia started at the Porta Fontinalis, close to the current Vittoriano). In the 10th century the gate was named Porta San Valentino, due to the basilica and the catacomb with the same name, rising at the beginning of Viale Pilsudski. The origin of the present name of the gate, as well as of the piazza that it overlooks, is not clear: it has been supposed that it could derive from the many poplars (Latin: populus) covering the area, but it is more likely that the toponym is connected with the origins of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo (Saint Mary of the People), erected in 1099 by Pope Paschal II thanks to a more or less voluntary subscription of the Roman people. Considering the importance of the Via Flaminia, Porta del Popolo had, since the beginning of its existence, a prevalent role of sorting of the urban traffic rather than a defensive use. This brought to a never confirmed conjecture that the gate was formerly built with two archways (as well as two cylindrical side towers) and that only during the Middle Ages, as a consequence of the decrease of traffic due to the demographic fall, it was reduced into a single archway. At the age of Sixtus IV, the gate was half-buried and victim of a centuries-old negligence, damaged by time and medieval sieges; a shallow restoration was limited to a partial reinforcement of the structure. ?Romanın ana giriş kapılarından biri. Papalık armaları mevcut. 1500lü yıllardan kalma imiş.