Via Giulia

Designed by Bramante in 1508, Via Giulia is a picture-perfect road lined with colourful Renaissance palazzi and potted orange trees. At its southern end, the Fontana del Mascherone depicts a 17th-century hippy surprised by water spewing from his mouth. Just beyond it and spanning the road is the ivy-clad Arco Farnese, designed by Michelangelo as part of an ambitious, unfinished project to connect Palazzo Farnese with Villa Farnesina on the opposite side of the Tiber. Continuing north, on the left, in Via di Sant’Eligio, is Chiesa di Sant’Eligio degli Orefici, the 16th-century goldsmiths’ church designed by Raphael.