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VIA DEL CORSO: The
main street of Rome is the principal arterial shopping road of the city.
From here as many important streets meander: Condotti, Frattina, Greci,
Tomacelli, Borgognona, Vittoria, Grottino, Mercede, Tritone, San
Silvestro. The urban collocation puts it in the centre of the city to
joint Piazza Venezia, political gist of the city, to Piazza Colonna,
political gist of the nation, until to Piazza del Popolo where all the
events, the shows and the concerts are kept in the shade of the Pincio,
“the most beautiful terrace in the world”, as it was definited by W.
Goethe. Via del Corso is the ancient Via Lata, as Via Flaminia was
called inside the walls of Rome. Along it, you can see monuments of each
historical epoch that are mounted in the palaces like little icons: the
ancient “Fontana del Bottino”, near Vicolo Doria Pamphili, the column of
Piazza Colonna, the “Galleria Alberto Sordi” or the palace of the
“Rinascente”. To reach the beginning of Via del Corso, at Piazza del
Popolo, you should take the metro A, getting off at Flamino or Spagna
stop, from where you can walk along Via Condotti and arrive in Piazza
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