Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
Historic site · Esquilino, Italy
The porticoed square at the centre of the rione, laid out under the 1873 master plan and built from 1880. it.wikipedia gives it as 325 by 185 metres and 60,000 square metres including the porticoes. The garden in the middle is dedicated to Nicola Calipari and reopened on 31 October 2020 after twenty months of works; three separate things stand inside it, the Severan nymphaeum called the Trofei di Mario, the Porta Alchemica, and Mario Rutelli's fountain of 1911.
History
The garden was opened to the public on Sunday 10 July 1889. Open-air market stalls stood on the square from the 1890s until they were cleared in October 2001. The building between via Emanuele Filiberto and via Conte Verde was rebuilt and re-inaugurated in 2012 and houses the Fondazione ENPAM; the excavation carried out for that rebuilding produced the Museo Ninfeo, which opened on 6 November 2021.
Visit
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 00185 Roma RM
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