House & Garden 
PLAN OF THE PIAZZA DEL POPOLO 
by the by, what pleasure those basins give ! 
What countless thousands of little Britons 
have sailed, or are to sail, toy boats under 
the shadow of the Nelson statue, on these 
calm waters of Trafalgar Square ! 
In the fine and well-known Piazza del 
Popolo in Rome there is one ot the most 
interesting examples ot the square deliber¬ 
ately planned for city embellishment. The 
whole view from the top of the Pincian Hill 
which overlooks the Piazza, seeing the 
bridge beyond and the background of mod¬ 
ern buildings, is a lesson in the science of 
modern civic construction. The Piazza is 
old, and the obelisk that stands in its center 
has been there for more than three hundred 
years, but the treatment of the space is 
essentially modern. It forms the fitting vesti¬ 
bule to New Rome. Into the square comes 
the broadened Corso ; trom it diverge great 
radial thoroughfares. With the ancient 
“ Hill of Gardens ” rising on one side, and 
tall trees leaving on the other only the vista 
of the bridge, there is verdure enough in 
the surroundings to justify a distinctly for¬ 
mal and architectural arrangement. This 
includes a geometric placing of single lamp- 
posts and candelabra, and curved bounding 
THE PIAZZA DEL POPOLO^ Looking down the Corso 
ROME 
