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The Posterula Way was born as “Rampa Braschi”, at the end of the 17th century, after the wrecking of the late ancient surrounding wall, to link the “Palazzo Braschi”(summer seat of the Pope Pio VI) and the historic centre to the New Appian Way and to Borgo Pio (the new town). The setting-up of Palazzo Braschi involved the whole south face of the “Piazza Grande” (now “Piazza Municipio”), with the restructuring of many historic buildings, as the mansion of the Renaissance De Tassis, the deconsecrated medieval church of “S.Maria in Posterula”, and many other buildings in the ancient square, changed into the “Scuderie Braschi” and into the great “Terrazza del Belvedere”. Today the way has got the same charm that it once had: going through it, possibly before the sunset, when the sun shines on “Palazzo Braschi”, ricreates the atmosphere of the famous painting of J.P. Hackert of the 1795.