Pincio, Terrazza e Passeggiata

The promenade was decided on in 1810, when the Napoleonic administration set out to create a public walk and Giuseppe Valadier presented a scheme linking piazza del Popolo to the Pincian hill. The central government sent the architect Louis Martin Berthault instead, who reworked it and proposed the elliptical form of the square. After 1814 the work returned to Valadier, who carried it through the Restoration to 1834. The promenade passed to the Municipio in 1848. Roma Capitale records that the access from piazza del Popolo climbs through three prospettive linked by small flights and by via Gabriele D'Annunzio: the first, of 1830, three niches with an antique Igea; the second, also of 1830, a relief of Fame crowning the Genii of the Arts and Commerce over a marble seat with two winged lions; and the third, a three-arched loggia carrying the Belvedere terrace, into which a nymphaeum was built in 1936 to a design by Raffaele De Vico, as a mostra of the Acqua Vergine, after an idea of Valadier's. The access off viale delle Magnolie is the one that has stayed strictly pedestrian.