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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 04/06/2026 16:39:00

Lined with neighbourhood trattorias, small shops and the occasional clerical outfitter, Borgo Pio is one of the most atmospheric small streets in central Rome, running for a few hundred metres between the Tiber and the walls of Vatican City just north of Saint Peter Square. The name and the layout date from the sixteenth century, when Pope Pius IV reorganised the surrounding quarter. The Borgo quarter, the medieval district that grew up beside the Vatican to serve the steady flow of pilgrims to...