Talk:Via della Conciliazione

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An entry from Via della Conciliazione appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 25 February 2007.

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Insert one of those nifty lat/long templates for the right hand corner. See if NASA WorldWind has a decent-res satellite image available, upload to Commons. Find a figure (and ref) for the rough area cleared during construction. Expand the "Today" section. Go into more detail on the plans drawn up by Piacentini and Spaccarelli. Lots of stuff available in Kirk for this. Tighten prose all-round. Still a bit of a rough draft at the moment. Make some redlinks blue.

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Hallo, it is nice that someone decided to write an article about Via della Conciliazione. Unfortunately, the sources which you used don't appear to be that good, since there are several errors there. I started to correct them. Alex2006 08:27, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, the bulk of the mistakes and typos are due to having to rush the article out of the sandbox following Kitkatcrazy's creation of the article a few days ago, since I was aiming to have it feature in DYK before the timer ran out. It's also why the todo box is so large. With regards to Franco Franchi naming the street, the only references I can find for that are forked duplicates of a single hotel/holiday writeup of dubious origin. I can't find even a single reference to the guy even existing (though the existence of Franco Franchi the comedian may be obscuring other reputable sources.) I'm more than happy to be corrected in this, but you'll need something more substantial than a copy of the tourist brochure article to back it up. GeeJo ^(t)⁄_(c) • 11:32, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Ciao,

when I talk about errors, I am not referring to typos and mistakes, but to factual errors in the article. I think that these came from your main reference. I don't know whence this author got his knowledge, but apparently he did not read carefully the many books about Borgo and Via della Conciliazione which have been published in Italy about this subject during the last 70 years. One example above all: the obelisks of the road were not present in the original plan, but they have been conceived as 'escamotage' at the end of the forties, when it was clear to everyone that the visual effect of the two diverging surviving sides of the former roads of 'Borgo Vecchio' and 'Borgo Nuovo' was terrible.

In order to check it, you can read for example the book 'La spina dei Borghi' by Ceccarius (1938) where there is a perspective view of the original project of Piacentini and Spaccarelli (Nomen est Omen ;-)), without obelisks.

Moreover, Piacentini did not choose to orient the road on the obelisk of St. Peter's square. He had no choice, since it was not possible to demolish the N Part of Borgo Nuovo (with Palazzo Torlonia and S. Maria in Traspontina) and the S Part of Borgo Vecchio (with the Palace of Penitenzieri).

One last thing: in half an hour I am leaving (to Rome ;-)) for four days, but if you want when I will come back I can help you to improve the article, correcting the mistakes and inserting the necessary references.

Ciao,Alex2006 12:34, 23 February 2007 (UTC)