Via Roma

Why is the broad avenue leading to St. Peter{u2019}s called the Street of Reconciliation? What does the Via dei Fori Imperiali{u2015}where the ancient imperial forums lie{u2015}have to do with Mussolini? How does the name Piazza Navona disclose what is hidden under the square? Via Roma tells Rome{u2019}s secrets one street at a time. In this brilliant guide, Willemijn van Dijk takes readers across time and place as they wander along the roads of the ancient Italian capital. Street by street, fifty of them, van Dijk allows the stones to reveal their origins, their makers, the significance of…