Wednesday, July 13, 2005


Piazza del Popolo (popolo=people, but in this case Popolo derives from pioppo=poplar). At the center of the square the obelisk placed here by Domenico Fontana in 1589 as part of the urban plan of Sixtus V. It was originally erected in Heliopolis and it was brought to Rome and placed in the Circus Maximus by Augustus. It is dedicated to Rameses II and is topped by the mountains and the star of Sixtus V.

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