Personal travel impressions in stories and pictures from Pigna, Rome, Italy. Click on the pictures to enlarge, send as a free e-card, or download for personal use. You can locate Pigna and navigate the world using Google Earth
Locate Pigna on map
N 41° 53.946 E 12° 28.764
Book a hotel near Pigna, Rome, Italy with low prices for all kinds of hotels - without reservation fees
Book a budget room in one of the youth hostels in Italy
Order your free brochure with offers for travelling to Italy
Rent your car in Italy
Monte Rosa skiing
Piazza del Popolo
Canal Grande
Baths of Caracalla
San Polo
Murano
Cannaregio
Castello
Venetian canals
Giudecca
Monumental Cemetery
San Giorgio Maggiore
Forum Romanum
Castello Sforzesco
San Michele Cemetery
Torcello
Abruzzo Landscape
Villa Adriana
Cinque Terre
Fountains in Rome
Reggia Caserta
Santa Chiara
Naples Streets
Pompei and Herculaneum
Pantheon
Florence Cathedral
San Marco
Trastevere
San Paolo fuori le Mura
Galleria Vittorio Emmanuele II
Santa Sabina
Colosseum
Milan Duomo
Milano Sculptures
Visited: September 2005 and several times before
These pictures have been tagged with the following tags (clicking on the tag will take you to all pictures on this site with that tag)
Search pages at Traveladventures.org
You can travel the world using images - select your preferred language below:
If you want to be updated regularly about new stories and pictures:
Click your way around Italy with pictures (needs Google Earth software)
Explore Italy and the world through flags, maps, money, and images; compare Italy to any other and test your knowledge at Visual Geography Italy
It is possible to advertise on this travel site. Travel advertisers, ask for more information!
Will the current economic crisis affect your travel plans?
View Results If you have any travel related question which you would like to ask our public, please write to us!
Rome is an ancient city, which becomes clear wherever you walk in the Eternal City. A district which roughly has the road layout and planning of the classical era, is Pigna, or rione IX. Pigna is roughly situatued between the Pantheon, Via del Seminario, via del Corso, Piazza Venezia, via San Marco and Via di Torre Argentina. It takes it name from a roman bronze sculpture of a pine-cone. While it was standing on the Pantheon according to legend, it most likely served as a fountain in Agrippa's baths. Whatever its history, it can now be found in the courtyard in the Vatican Museums.
Apart from the Pantheon, the obvious highlight of this district, Pigna offers the visitor a stroll through narrow and quiet streets where cars are not allowed to drive, to crossing busy streets. You can stumble upon hidden churches, small squares, even a giant marble foot. The latter actually is the remains of an Egyptian temple, and it can be found in the aptly named Via del Pie di Marmo (Street of the Marble Foot). In Roman times, this area, the Saepta, was used for Republican meetings, and it also held temples. Some of these were dedicated to Egyptian deities. History has its hold on Pigna district.
But apart from these smaller remains of antiquity, there are churches like the Santa Maria sopra Minerva church, impressive especially when you enter through the rather small backdoor, the remains of the baths of Agrippa, which can clearly be seen blended in with the houses in the street, the Roman College, and the Piazza Sant'Ignazio. The latter was designed in the 18th century by Filippo Raguzzini, related to the pope. The square, best seen from the steps of the Sant'Ignazio church, is conceived like a theatre, a real exponent of Baroque Rome, and the central building, now in use by the carabinieri, is like a giant stage with side-wings, from which passers-by appear like actors in a real-life theatre show.
