Places of Ettore Roesler Franz - Tower Margana - E 'of the House from the Torne Margani Roman family of minor nobility, which overlooks the
Via the same name Margana, and turns in part on the square. Featuring the classic frieze ago
frame the portal, the arches of the loggia closed for a time, from a symbolic column stuck in low almost chiseled in the Tower. An air gay, by the square of transit in the dense urban fabric at the foot of the Capitol, near Tor de 'Mirrors. the usual vendors with umbrellas (and we're already on the square), passers-by, two priests, a child, the light, the inevitable Marian newsagents on the corner with Via dei Delfini. And flowers and hanging clothes always present. As for forage, spread a little 'everywhere, it is more than justified by the words that we read about the "small blue" placed over the portal embroidered: "Hotel for Horses, carriages and carts. Spaccio of hay." The horse! this great forgotten.

"Piazza Margana: between the square under the scenta Capitol and the other Campitelli. Da 'way to Ward S. Angelo." With these words he expressed Bernardino Bernardini, a Roman patrician, in his accurate description of the new ripartimento de 'Rioni of Rome of 1744 Ed remained as then, the lovely square character which refines and character to the whole area. At the time when you would walk and called friends and family from the road. "Dear lovely old square", invoked Benjamin De Ritis living abroad, consumed by nostalgia. "Poor little square," he said instead Pietro Paolo Trompeo in a elzeviro which was to give way to a successful collection of short essays Romans. "Almost a rustic courtyard, went on, and a village square where they are found at Velletri or Albano."

Yet the small area between Piazza d'Aracoeli (to which the demolition "imperial" they would remain little more than a side) and Campitelli, is nothing but the "champion", survived intact, the urban fabric of the front 1870- in 1880. Indeed, a "typical form" of the planimetric and structural (square and access roads with picturesque houses of poor low monumentality) that characterized the Rome of the past albeit through various transformations and renovations. The Rome that we have seen in these watercolors "stop" by Roesler Franz not for long. Enough, however, to send with a half-kind, full of delicate colors, memories of an era that passed. So that even the smallest portion of good luck has left intact even a Via Margana, an alley and a Margana Via di Tor Margana, toponymic elements distributed in Rione Campitelli although partly disputed by Ward S. Angelo.