Piazza Risorgimento

Piazza Risorgimento is a hub for movement, both pedestrian and vehicular. It is located directly Northeast of Vatican City and Saint Peter's Square. The busy shopping street of Cola di Rienzo also terminates heres. Along with these two pedestrian oriented axes, the piazza is a hub for buses and trams, with tracks running through it. With all of this varying activity, multiple districts and pathways are formed. The main pathway of the piazza runs directly through it where pedestrian traffic from Saint Peter's moves north in search of restaurants and shopping. This same movement from Saint Peter's moves along the edge of the Vatican wall heading towards the Vatican Museum. This very touristy crowd often collides with the native crowds of Italian shoppers that have worked their way down Rienzo and ended here at the piazza. Aside from the path directly through the piazza, there is not alot of pedestrian movement through due to the tram tracks and buses parked within the piazza.

While alot of piazzas are pedestrian oriented gathering places, this piazza is more of an intersection of various modes of transit and people. It is broken down into multiple districtes that are created by the traffic movement around it, and transit movement within it which create hard edges and multiple island districts. There are a few nodes within the piazza where street vendors set up, or people come to wait for trams, or buy bus tickets, as well as sitting areas. Most of the activity though is happening at the intersections where pedestrians, vehicles, and transit meet.