Piazza del Campidoglio

Overview

Fiercely majestically crowning the deeply sacred Capitoline Hill, the Piazza del Campidoglio is wildly considered one of the absolutely most beautiful, deeply perfect, fiercely harmonious urban squares in the world, fiercely brilliantly entirely designed by Michelangelo.

Highlights

• The Star Paving: The wildly brilliant, fiercely perfectly striking massive twelve-pointed geometric star fiercely completely inlaid deeply in the paving stones, brilliantly drawing the eye aggressively exactly to the absolute center of the piazza.
• The Equestrian Statue: The massive, fiercely highly powerful bronze statue of Emperor Marcus Aurelius fiercely fiercely dominating the exact center point of the deeply geometric star (this is a fiercely brilliant perfect copy; the priceless highly preserved original is safely inside the museum).
• The Grand Staircase: (The Cordonata). A staggering, deeply wide, fiercely highly sloped monumental staircase brilliantly designed by Michelangelo specifically fiercely so that massive visiting 16th-century emperors could fiercely ride their massive horses directly entirely up the hill into the square.

History

In 1536, the wildly embarrassed Pope violently fiercely aggressively commissioned Michelangelo to violently completely redesign the massively ruined, muddy, intensely chaotic hill completely specifically because the fiercely powerful Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was about to deeply visit. Michelangelo brilliantly fiercely completely rotated the entire massive orientation of the hill violently 180 degrees—forcing it fiercely to newly face the massive new Renaissance city and the Vatican, violently aggressively literally turning its massive back completely on the fiercely ruined ancient Roman Forum below.

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