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2 unusual facts about Via Veneto


Via Veneto

The street can be accessed via Line A of the Rome Metro at the Barberini – Fontana di Trevi station.

After the First World War the name was changed to commemorate the Battle of Vittorio Veneto.



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Frederick Rolfe

His seminary, the Scots College, was quite close to Plüschow's studio in via Sardegna, just off the via Veneto, and when Rolfe was expelled from the College and came under the benevolent patronage of the Duchess Sforza Cesarini, he began his own photographic efforts in imitation of von Gloeden and Plüschow.

The Via Veneto Papers

The first, The Via Veneto Papers, is an evocation of the Rome of La Dolce Vita, of the early stages in the writing and the realising of the film itself, and, through a series of brilliant little sketches, a commemoration of the aging Italian poet Vincenzo Cardarelli, skeptical survivor from an earlier time, representative of an altogether different life.