Piazza di Montecitorio

Squares of Rome

On Piazza di Montecitorio, the Chamber of Deputies (palazzo di Montecitorio) which was begun by Bernini in the XVIIth.

In the middle of the square, an obelisk brought back from Heliopolis in Egypt that Augustus emperor installed on the Champ de Mars to serve of switches on an enormous sundial.
The monument was founded in the XVIth century under medieval houses.