Advantages: Plenty of variety, not all designer, lots of affordable places, food and cinema. Disadvantages: You might fall in love with designer clothes in the windows!
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Via del Corso runs from Piazza Venetia, below the Il Vittoriano monument in the center of Rome, all the way up to Piazza del Popolo in the north of the city. It's one of the biggest streets for shopping in Rome and is frequented by tourists and locals, looking for a variety of goods. There are no sites that would be of interest to a tourist on Via del Corso, but there are so many very nearby such as the Spanish Steps, the Pantheon, the Trevi Fountain ... ...when it was known as Via Flaminia and was known to take you towards the Adriatic. The modern name derives from 'corse' as in a course for the horseracing that was commissioned to run here by Pope Paul II. It took place from the bottom of the Capitoline Hill and all the way up to the Piazza del Popolo and just past the city wall...so it literally was the whole street that took part. The road is absolutely straight and wide, which is unusual for an ...
Ottavia 08.09.2008 (29.08.2008)
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Advantages: A new way to discover the town Disadvantages: No disadvantages.
...of a house settle in Via del Corso who Goethe spent a lot of his time with other poets and german painters.The house is still at the same place and it's funny to start from this house to discover (200 years after) that Rome is still the same, always so atractive,and compare your point of view with the Goethe's one. You have to try. Discover your self the house of Goethe in the middle of Via del corso, visit the exhibition inside, buy
the little ...
eyekeeper 22.09.2001
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