https://cgmr.carleton.edu/files/original/2301e24e967a66ff08e6de969633772f.jpg 773c9c36612ced416216c7ee5b5e7ff7 Place A location with a street address or larger region. Examples include building, statue, piazza, fountain, port, neighborhood, paintings, sculptures, frescoes, floors. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Piazza Navona Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Charlie Martens (2017) Description An account of the resource The Piazza Navona is placed just west of the Pantheon. Today it is a bustling hub for both tourists and locals alike, with restaurants and bars lining the edges to provide a pleasant outdoor dining experience. However the piazza was not always the active tourist and local destination as it is today. The Piazza Navona was originally a hippodrome (a stadium for chariot races) built by Diocletian in Roman antiquity. Like many other great monuments of the Ancient Romans, the hippodrome was essentially abandoned and left ignored during the Middle Ages. As you can see from the accompanying photo, the original long elliptical shape of the hippodrome still persists. However, the original structure of the Stadium of Diocletian would have been far more apparent in the medieval period. Instead of the Renaissance and Baroque era buildings that face the piazza today, dwellings of the medieval piazza would have been ensconced within the original vaults of the Stadium. Though most of the original stadium has since been engulfed by newer buildings, you can still see pieces of the original framework in which these medieval houses would have been situate in the museum of the Stadium of Diocletian, at the northern end of the Piazza Navona. It was not uncommon for the piazza to host races and tournaments during the late medieval era. Beginning in the thirteenth century, Rome put on games in a celebration of the community which featured three games in particular: the hasti ludium in which horsemen would demonstrate their proficiency with a lance by threading them through suspended rings, the horse races, and the bull-and-pig-chasing. The first two games mentioned were featured in the Piazza Navona. Presently the impressive Baroque façade of the Church of Saint Agnes in Agony looms over the Piazza Navona. The church was originally built as a humble oratory to the Christian martyr Saint Agnes sometime before 800. Similar to the other buildings of the piazza, the oratory was embedded in the original structure of the Stadium of Diocletian. In the early twelfth century, Pope Callistus II had the oratory greatly enlarged. Though the structure of the church certainly changed, the original plan of the basilica was retained to an extent. By the end of this project, the church of Saint Agnes in Agony towered over all other buildings in the square, which remains to be the case today. Abstract A summary of the resource. The Piazza Navona is placed just west of the Pantheon. Today it is a bustling hub for both tourists and locals alike, with restaurants and bars lining the edges to provide a pleasant outdoor dining experience. However the piazza was not always the active tourist and local destination as it is today. The Piazza Navona was originally a hippodrome (a stadium for chariot races) built by Diocletian in Roman antiquity. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context piazzanavona_2015 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Krautheimer, Richard. Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. p. 12-271. "Le Origine." Sant'Agnese in Agone. Date Accessed April 18, 2015. http://www.santagneseinagone.org/homepage.html Maire Vigueur, Jean-Claude. L'altra Roma: Una Storia dei Romani all'epoca dei communi (secoli XII-XIV). Torino: Einaudi, 2011. p. 140-146 Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. Piazza Navona, 00186 Roma RM Subject The topic of the resource Neighborhoods neighborhoods