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A spot of magic at the lights – San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

A spot of magic at the lights – San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane

Architecture, Art History, Baroque, Baroque Rome tour, Borromini, Quirinal, Rome

Tweet On my way home from yesterday afternoon’s tour of the Galleria Borghese (it’s glorious, go!), I scootered up via delle Quattro Fontane and past the Palazzo Barberini to the tight junction with via del Quirinale, to the only traffic light I always...

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