The Gate of the People, or Flaminian Gate, is a city gate of the Aurelian Walls of Rome that marks the border between Piazza del Popolo and Piazzale Flaminio.
The current appearance is therefore the result of a sixteenth-century reconstruction, also made necessary by the renewed importance that, at that time, the gate had once again assumed, from the point of view of urban traffic coming from the north.
The external façade was commissioned by Pope Pius IV to Michelangelo, who however transferred the task to Nanni di Baccio Bigio, who created the work between 1562 and 1565 inspired by the arch of Titus, while the façade, again based on drawings by Michelangelo, was created by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola.
Gate of the People - Flaminian Gate
Address: Piazzale Flaminio, 00187 Roma Italia
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