{"id":824,"date":"2026-03-20T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/?page_id=824"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:45:23","slug":"piazza-santa-maria-in-trastevere","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/?page_id=824","title":{"rendered":"Piazza\u00a0Santa\u00a0Maria\u00a0in\u00a0Trastevere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"502\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-670.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-670.png 502w, https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-670-300x179.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the very heart of Trastevere stands one of its most active and public squares&nbsp;located&nbsp;directly in&nbsp;front of the&nbsp;church whose&nbsp;name it&nbsp;takes,&nbsp;<strong>Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>An 8<\/strong><strong><sup>th<\/sup><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;century polygonal fountain&nbsp;<\/strong>standing directly in front of the church adorns its center. Trastevere received its first supply of public water only in the first century AD, when&nbsp;<strong>Emperor Trajan&nbsp;<\/strong>provided&nbsp;the&nbsp;area&nbsp;with&nbsp;an&nbsp;aqueduct&nbsp;(Aqua&nbsp;Traiana).&nbsp;Reconstructed&nbsp;several times between the 15<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;and 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;centuries, the fountain\u2019s architects include luminaries such as Bramante, Rainaldi, Bernini and Fontana.&nbsp;<strong>Bernini&nbsp;<\/strong>relocated&nbsp;the fountain to its current location in the center of the square.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Opposite the fountain on the other side is a great brick structure, the\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Palazzo\u00a0San\u00a0Callisto<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0named\u00a0after\u00a0the\u00a0Pope\u00a0whose\u00a0house\u00a0(titulus)\u00a0served as a private church for the early Christian community and over which Christians built the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere. The current version of this palace, constructed in the 17<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century, now houses offices of the diocese the\u00a0City\u00a0and apartment residences for members of the Roman Courier, officials who work in the Vatican.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"312\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-671.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-671.png 312w, https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-671-300x214.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0piazza\u00a0is the\u00a0<strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Palazzo Cavalieri-\u00a0Ossoli<\/span><\/strong>. In\u00a0the 19<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century the palace\u00a0belonged\u00a0to\u00a0the\u00a0family\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>Giacomo\u00a0Leopardi<\/strong>,\u00a0one\u00a0of\u00a0Italy\u2019s\u00a0greatest modern poets and philosophers.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"295\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-672.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-827\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the very heart of Trastevere stands one of its most active and public squares&nbsp;located&nbsp;directly in&nbsp;front of the&nbsp;church whose&nbsp;name it&nbsp;takes,&nbsp;Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere.&nbsp;An 8th&nbsp;century polygonal fountain&nbsp;standing directly in front of the church adorns its center. Trastevere received its first supply of public water only in the first century AD, when&nbsp;Emperor Trajan&nbsp;provided&nbsp;the&nbsp;area&nbsp;with&nbsp;an&nbsp;aqueduct&nbsp;(Aqua&nbsp;Traiana).&nbsp;Reconstructed&nbsp;several times between the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-824","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romeguide.hcc-nd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}