Thursday, September 3, 2009

Trastavere

Some other successful piazzas are those like the Piazza Trilussa and the Piazza Santa Maria in Trastavere.
The Piazza Trilussa is the only piazza that connects directly to the street running along the Tiber, and it also connects directly to a bridge linking to the other side of the river and leading to Campo di Fiori, and it creates a wecoming space to enter Trastavere for people crossing from the eastern side of the city. The space has a good amount of commercial space and while many cars are parked there, moving traffic is light and there are plenty of places to stop and look in in the piazza and along Via del Moro, a small, winding street leading out of the piazza.
The streets eventually lead one from the Tiber to Piazza Santa Maria in Trastavere, another successful piazza, centered around a fountain in its center and a church covered in gold leaf. This piazza also has plenty of commercial spaces, restaurants with outdoor seating that soften the edges of the piazza while still allowing it to feel like a discrete, defined space. A small network of other piazzas make the space seem more connected as a neighborhood, as all these spaces flow into one another and are fairly close. The small, bending streets keep the area feeling small in scale, as one can never see too far ahead, and the buildings in Trastavere are smaller than in most of the rest of the city; generally no more than three or four stories.

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