Pantheon Family Romantic Suite

Vocation and history of the neighborhood

The neighborhood was born in the republican era after the expulsion of the last King of Rome Tarquinius the Superb. The area called Campo Marzio, a sacred place dedicated to the god of war Mars, was just outside the official city limits and used for training by the Roman army and for the reception of foreign ambassadors. The construction of sacred buildings begins, in this area, from the first King and founder of Rome Romulus who, as legend has it, ascended to heaven in this place while he was reviewing the army. The monumentalization of the neighborhood began with Cesare who built the Pompeo Theater here and continued with all his successors who enriched it with incredible buildings such as the Pantheon and the Baths of Marco Vespasiano Agrippa or the Mausoleum of Augustus wanted by the same emperor, the Via Lata which from 1466 became Via del Corso, the Temple of Hadrian, a stadium which would later become Piazza Navona, the baths of Nero and many others among temples and public buildings. In the Middle Ages it was one of the most populated neighborhoods together with Trastevere and Borgo San Pietro where the life and economy of the city took place mainly given by the pilgrimages of the faithful to San Pietro. With Pope Martino V, Pope Sixtus IV, Pope Julius II and Pope Clement III the Renaissance explodes with a renewed urbanization, Ponte Sisto, Via di Ripetta, Via del Babbuino, Piazza di Spagna, the splendid squares and obelisks that redesign the neighborhood definitively in the beauty and majesty that distinguishes it from the rest of Rome. Artists like Brunelleschi, the great Donatello, the genius of Michelangelo, Raffaello and many others worked in the surrounding churches and monuments. With the Baroque Campo Marzio continued to embellish itself with the works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Caravaggio, Francesco Borromini and the greatest artists of the time embellishing with their works Piazza Navona, via Condotti, Piazza di Pietra with the Temple of Hadrian, Piazza di Spagna and Via Frattina doing that open-air work that is the Campo Marzio district, by far the most beautiful in Rome.