through the ancient streets

Tracing route Montegiordano you cross one of the most attractive point in Ponte district , full of memories and traditions. Immediately after a beautiful alley of the Orsini sacred shrine is Our Lady seated, with the head turned to a female figure, perhaps S. Or Anna S. Elizabeth. The Virgin holds the arm with his right hand while his left hand the Child lifting a flap of tissue . The head is wrapped according to Renaissance hairstyle . Of great interest is a small dead end alley as the Montonaccio , so named because uncomfortable , where beyond the walls of the houses appear to trees gardens and courtyards where a short perspective delivers the ascent to the big gate beyond which is one of the "internal" more striking and unexpected in Rome. In the alley of Avila Avila is the eponymous palace . Path of dead cows , meets via the Peace Palace where Gambirasi undertaken since 1659 by the architect Giovanni Antonio De Rossi, modifying existing buildings that stood on this side of the block. The construction followed the indications of Pietro da Cortona , in the same year that he was making is the renovation of the church of St. Our Lady of Peace , as the open space in front of the church in a spectacular performance of Baroque urbanism . The new facade of the building was then aligned with the buildings created from Cortona , in order to ensure the desired visual effect foreseen by him. The building consists of a two-storied facade plus mezzanine . On the ground floor open up some doors of shops with windows above the first mezzanine in the center sets the portal , while the main floor consists of 8 windows and a corner balcony . The upper floor consists of nine windows on a cornice and over again from the mezzanine beautiful frame. When the building passed to the Gambirasi , was built the arched roof terrace bearing the inscription " Gambirasia ", built in the eighteenth century.