3 streets arrive to Piazza del Popolo : via del Babouino's name comes from an ugly statue found in the street.
These streets are the perfect shopping place...
On the other side of the piazza is El Pincio, one of the 7 hills of Roma.
Very typical.
On the hill you can find a park, with fountains. Very typical.
Actually, anywhere you look at in Roma is "very typical"... and that's not just touritic speech, that's true !

This monument  was built thanks to king Victor Emmanuel II to celebrate the unification of Italy (1870), and its new capital : Roma !
Its design is much debated : it's nicknamed "the writing machine", "the denture" or "wedding cake"... !!
And the moustache of the statue of Victor Emmanuel II is about one meter long !

Architects love to play : if you look to the colonnas from a specific place, you don't see the free ranks of collonas but only one rank...
It took 120 years to build Saint Pierre's Church, 20 popes, 10 architects (among them was Michel-Angelo and Le Bernin)... and after that we complain about computer science projects !
There are 250 statues, 500 colonnas, 50 altars inside... and 60 000 people can stand inside.
The church is 211 meters long and you can see marks on the ground showing the size of other worldwide famous (smaller ;) ) churches...

And Vatican is also famous for its museum, full of Raphael's or The Caravage's work... only unknown persons ! ;)

And be careful not to get a stiff neck when looking at the Sixtine Chapel...

Did I get shorter, or did they built this church for giants ?
The baldaquin among the altar is 29 meters high, for example !