Rome, Sunday 23 February #vialibera: 15 km roads closed
On Sunday, February 23, #ViaLibera returns to Rome, from 10 to 18 from the city center and Prati. Some roads will be totally or partially closed to traffic and reserved for pedestrians and cyclists.
Between 10 and 18 the 15 km cycle-pedestrian circuit dedicated to pedestrians and cyclists will be active. Among the streets involved, via Cola di Rienzo, via Tiburtina (in San Lorenzo), viale delle Scienze, viale Università, viale Castro Pretorio and via San Martino della Battaglia, via XX Settembre, viale Manzoni, via Labicana, via dei Fori Imperiali (formerly pedestrian on Sunday 24h) and Largo Corrado Ricci, Via di San Gregorio, Via del Corso, Via Veneto, Largo Fellini and Via Bissolati.
For the partial pedestrianization of Piazza Venezia, always between 10 and 18 on Sunday the side of the square at Palazzo Venezia will become two-way. During the Via Libera there is a change of route for bus lines 16, 51, 52, 53, 60, 61, 62, 63, 66, 71, 75, 80, 81, 82, 83, 85, 90, 118, 150, 160, 310, 492, 590, 649, 910, C3 and MA10.
SOURCE: ROMA TODAY
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