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Architectural Digest ranks Via dei Coronari among the ten most beautiful streets in the world.

Rome is home to one of the world's top ten most beautiful streets - Via dei Coronari - according to the influential US publication Architectural Digest.

Located in the heart of Rome's historic centre near Piazza Navona, Via dei Coronari is a colourful 500-m long stretch of road flanked by buildings dating mainly from the 15th- and 16th centuries.

Via dei Coronari, which owes its name to the sellers of sacred objects and religious crowns that were along the 500 meters, is one of the most beautiful streets in Rome thanks to its Renaissance buildings and its characteristic colors. Its origin, however, dates back to the Middle Ages, at the time it was called Via Recta, because it was one of the few with a regular course. Here lived mainly noble families who managed to build the houses thanks to the papal consent and today they can still be admired from vicolo del Curato to via Sant’Agostino.

A route considered beautiful precisely because along it you can breathe different eras. For example, in 1500 the street was divided into two parts: the Scorticlaria because it housed many leather sellers, and the other Immagine di Ponte, due to the sacred shrine created by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger, with an image that it represented the Coronation of the Virgin. Via dei Coronari has inspired and hosted many film sets leather jackets made in italy