A brick-clad apartment building with corner balconies stands above ground-floor shops where Via Flaminia meets Via Cesare Fracassini in the Flaminio district of Rome.
At a glance
The building occupies the corner where Via Flaminia meets Via Cesare Fracassini, an avenue that runs from Via Flaminia down to Piazza Antonio Sarti on Lungotevere Flaminio. One published source attributes it to Luigi Cosimi and gives the year 1930; the ground floor contains a café and other commercial premises.
Key facts
- Where: Via Flaminia at the corner of Via Cesare Fracassini, Roma
- What: Residential building with ground-floor shops
- When: 1930, according to a document on Via Cesare Fracassini
- GPS: 41.9239, 12.4707 · Open in Google Maps
History
The street along one side of the building, Via Cesare Fracassini, is an avenue in the Flaminio district that connects Via Flaminia, at the height of Piazza Manila, with Piazza Antonio Sarti on Lungotevere Flaminio. It forms the final stretch of an axis made up of Viale dei Parioli and Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski, which descends from Piazza Ungheria to the Lungotevere. The 1909 town plan envisaged continuing this axis across a bridge towards Piazza Mazzini and Piazzale Clodio, but that extension was never built.
The street is named after Cesare Fracassini (1838–1868), a Roman painter and pupil of Tommaso Minardi. In his studio at Via Margutta 33 he painted his best-known work, the “Rivelazione dei Martiri Gorgomiesi”, which pleased Pope Pius IX and now hangs in the Vatican Palaces.
A page about Via Cesare Fracassini records that on the right side of Via Flaminia, at the corner with Via Fracassini and Viale del Vignola, there is an “edificio intensivo” by Luigi Cosimi dated 1930.
What you see
The photographs show a tall building clad in brown brick, with a dark stone ground floor. The upper floors have stacked balconies on the corner and along the façades, with rectangular windows set into the brickwork. At street level, the corner has commercial premises; a sign reading “CAFFÈ STELLA ROSCHENA” is visible above one of the shopfronts, and a news kiosk stands on the pavement to the left. In one photograph, a white van and a red car are parked in front of the building on Via Flaminia.
A second photograph in the same series shows a white-painted apartment block at the junction, its pale elevations contrasting with the brick-clad building described above and its stacked corner balconies opening onto Via Flaminia. Above a ground-floor commercial frontage, the sign ‘AETERNA SUITES’ is visible, indicating a later hospitality use not mentioned elsewhere on this page. According to Stefano Vigolo’s notes, the image was taken from a viewpoint near the hedged verge and parked cars that line the street, recording both the building’s street-level setting and the regular rhythm of its window openings. The Biblioteche di Roma directory confirms the Biblioteca Flaminia at Via Cesare Fracassini 9 lies within the same block, giving the precise civic number for the school and library complex already noted nearby.
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Nearby
- Guido Alessi Elementary School, Rome — a school with the Biblioteca Flaminia, about 95 metres from the corner
Gallery
Sources
- Roma2pass, via Cesare Fracassini: attribution of the building to Luigi Cosimi, 1930; description of the street and of Cesare Fracassini
- Turismo Roma, Biblioteca Flaminia: address and location of the Biblioteca Flaminia at Via Cesare Fracassini 9
- Coffee in Rome, STELLA RUSCHENA CAFFÈ, VIA FLAMINIA 231, 00196 ROMA: name and address of the café at the corner
- Mapstr, Bar Caffe’ Stella Ruschena Roma: café address at Via Cesare Fracassini 2 and phone number
- Stefano Vigolo, photographs and notes to the editorial staff (2026): identification of the subject and coordinates. Not a published source
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