Along Via dei Banchi Nuovi

Via dei Banchi Nuovi was the ancient " papalis " as they traveled by papal processions , especially on the occasion of the parade that the new pope PERFORMED , as Bishop of Rome , to go to St. The Basilica of St. Peter John Lateran . The name " Banks " , extended to the area also includes the way Bank of St. Spirit and Via dei Banchi Vecchi , refers to schools where merchants , bankers , notaries, clerks and merchants of all kinds exercised their business , taking advantage of the proximity of S. Peter. The street was named " Banchi Nuovi " where the transfer of the Papal Mint to the palace of the Banco di S. Spirit led the bankers to open their offices in this part of the exchange of correspondence strada.In number 30 , a door leads into a long, narrow hall , which is located at the bottom of one of the most beautiful courtyards sixteenth of the city. This is the courtyard of the palace Sterbini what was the first headquarters of the Banco di S. Spirit : it consists of two porches in front , with two arches with two columns of precious marble , travertine , and the other a pink granite . Aldobrandini Palace is a sixteenth century palace , residence of Sylvester Aldobrandini , father of Pope Clement VIII. He spent time in the Aldobrandini , the Pamphili, the Borghese family , the Counts and the Jannetti Del Grande . Rebuilt in the nineteenth century is remarkable for a beautiful courtyard with a portico with two columns.

Opposite is Pediconi Palazzo Capponi , was wanted by the Tuscan family of Capponi, present in the City since the first half of the fifteenth century. For Capponi took over the family originally from Milan Print , and then passed to Pediconi and Trestles . The construction of the building , which began at the time of the mid- seventeenth century by Capponi of the old building of the Orsini, proceeded very slowly , and at the time of the sale Print , which took place at the end of the seventeenth century , this was not yet completed . We do not know the name of the ' architect who conceived the project on behalf of Print. The palace was the main façade on Via degli Orsini , where he presented a series of workshops on the ground floor with the two portals. In the palace , was born in 1872 Eugenio Pacelli , Pope Pius XII 's name