Rome’s Quartiere Coppedè is a bizarre residential area featuring an alluring mix of different styles, art and eras.
Popular with visitors for its unusual architecture
The Quartiere Coppedè district is nestled in Rome’s Trieste district, in the northern part of the Eternal City, not far from the city centre, and it has become popular with visitors for its fantastic mix of Ancient Greek, Roman Baroque, Mannerist, Medieval, and Art Nouveau styles. This weird mishmash of architecture was created in 1919 by the Florentine architect Gino Coppedè, from whom the quarter gets its name, and he worked on the district right up to his death in 1927.
The Coppedè district has over 40 unusual buildings
The Quartiere Coppedè has many Art Nouveau palaces with floral, mythological and medieval details. The 31,000 sqm of the quarter - in all some 40 or so buildings – include Florentine-style towers and Venetian palazzi decorated with interesting external mosaics and frescoes. There are also typical Roman Baroque buildings with real and imitation papal crests, a sundial, and one building which has musical decorations, and ironwork with carvings that replica musical notation. Given its unusual and intriguing beauty, the Quartiere Coppedè is regularly used as a movie set, and for visitors who want a break from the majesty of imperial Rome, a visit her is a welcome distraction. 
A short tram-ride from downtown Rome
An easy way to get to the Quartiere Coppedè is to take the 3 or 19 trams and get off at Piazza Buenos Aires. From here it is a short walk to Piazza Mincio and its Fountain of the Frogs, into which the Beatles famously jumped after one of their concerts in Rome. The handsome archway over the Via Tagliamento marks the entrance to the quarter and has a whimsical outdoor chandelier, hanging right over the street. A visit to Rome’s Coppedè district is also a chance to get some great photographs and fun selfies.
