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Via della Lungara is a street that links Via di Porta Settimiana to Piazza della Rovere in

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), in the

Rione A (; plural: ) is a neighbourhood in several Italian cities. A is a territorial subdivision. The larger administrative subdivisions in Rome are the , with the being used only in the historic centre. The word derives from the Latin , the 14 su ...

Trastevere Trastevere () is the 13th '' rione'' of Rome: it is identified by the initials R. XIII and it is located within Municipio I. Its name comes from Latin ''trans Tiberim'', literally 'beyond the Tiber'. Its coat of arms depicts a golden head of a li ...

History and name

In the 16th century,

Pope Julius II Pope Julius II ( la, Iulius II; it, Giulio II; born Giuliano della Rovere; 5 December 144321 February 1513) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 1503 to his death in February 1513. Nicknamed the Warrior Pope or t ...

opened the new ''via recta'' ("straight road") that cut through the open land south of the

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into Trastevere to join the Ponte Sisto, and continued all the way to the

Ripa Grande Porto di Ripa Grande was the river port of Rome, just downstream the former '' Pons Sublicius'', where the wares, going up and down the Tiber towards the dock of Fiumicino, were handled. The building of the ''muraglioni'' (massive walls) has erase ...

at the southern edge of Rome. The original name of the street was ''Sub Janiculensis'' or ''Sub Jano'', while the pilgrims coming to Rome to visit

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called it ''Via Sancta''. It was later known as ''Via Julia'', just like the street of the same name on the opposite bank of the

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, although Pope Julius II didn't create the street (this credit goes to

Pope Alexander VI Pope Alexander VI ( it, Alessandro VI, va, Alexandre VI, es, Alejandro VI; born Rodrigo de Borja; ca-valencia, Roderic Llançol i de Borja ; es, Rodrigo Lanzol y de Borja, lang ; 1431 – 18 August 1503) was head of the Catholic Churc ...

), but just adapted it. Finally, the name was changed to Via della Lungara, that refers to its great length.

Monuments

Since 1728, in Via della Lungara rose the mental hospital of Santa Maria della Pietà, an extension of the Ospedale di Santo Spirito. The hospital was enlarged in 1867 and then demolished during the building of the

Lungotevere Lungotevere (Italian for ''Tiber Waterfront'') is an alley or boulevard running along the river Tiber within the city of Rome. The building of the Lungoteveres required the demolition of the former edifices along the river banks and the constr ...

Religious architectures

San Giacomo alla Lungara San Giacomo alla Lungara is a church in Rome (Italy), in the Rioni of Rome, Rione Trastevere, facing on Via della Lungara. It is also called ''San Giacomo in Settimiano'' or ''in Settignano'', due to its vicinity to Porta Settimiana, built by Sept ...

*Santi Leonardo e Romualdo *

Santa Croce alla Lungara Santa Croce alla Lungara is a church in Rome ( Italy), in the Rione Trastevere, facing on Via della Lungara. It is also called ''Santa Croce delle Scalette, due to the presence of a double flight of stairs (Italian: ''scale'') giving access f ...

San Giuseppe alla Lungara San Giuseppe alla Lungara is a church of Rome ( Italy), in the Rione Trastevere, facing on Via della Lungara. It was built under the papacy of Clement XII in 1734, after a design by Ludovico Rusconi Sassi; it underwent restoration works during ...

Civil architectures

Palazzo Corsini alla Lungara The Palazzo Corsini is a prominent late-baroque palace in Rome, erected for the Corsini family between 1730 and 1740 as an elaboration of the prior building on the site, a 15th-century villa of the Riario family, based on designs of Ferdinando Fu ...

Villa Farnesina The Villa Farnesina is a Renaissance suburban villa in the Via della Lungara, in the district of Trastevere in Rome, central Italy. Description The villa was built for Agostino Chigi, a rich Sienese banker and the treasurer of Pope Julius II. B ...

* Palazzo Salviati * Prison of Regina Coeli

In popular culture

Via della Lungara is connected to an ancient Roman adage: ' It refers to the three steps giving access to the Prison of Regina Coeli: the adage means that an authentic Roman should have lived the hard experience of jail and then descended "the step of the Coeli".

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Bibliography

* * {{Authority control Lungara