From Vicolo del Curato, close to Piazza Navona, Via dei Coronari goes straight to the banks of the Tiber near Ponte dell’Angelo which leads to Castel Sant’Angelo and then to Piazza San Pietro.
It was the shortest way for the pilgrims, travelled and attended all year long.
For this reason, during the Middle Ages, merchants settled there selling sacred objects, especially the rosary crowns which gave the name to the street which it bears till today.
Today it is the most elegant and famous street of Rome for its antique shops, among the best-known in the world, where walking is a pleasure for bewildered admiring eyes that take in shop windows with extraordinary antique furniture, 17th and 18th century pictures, antique sculptures, all artworks of absolute value that are the joy of collectors and aficionados.
Right at the beginning of the street, on the right side going toward Ponte Sant’Angelo, a plaque on a small medieval house which has remained much the same as its antique layout, reads “house of Fiammetta”. It was the house of one of the most famous Roman courtesans who in the 16th century, together with Imperia, enlivened the evenings of the courts.