Via dei Cessati Spiriti is a street in Rome (Italy),[1] established as a result of an adjustment of the route of Via Appia Nuova, which took place in the 1940s.

The area of the Caffarella valley, close to the junction between the Via Latina and the former route of the Via Appia Nuova, had been called delli Spiriti (Italian for "of the Spirits") since the 16th century, due to unpleasant nighttime meetings[2].

On July 2, 1910, Adriano Bennicelli – a Roman nobleman who lived between 1860 and 1925 and was nicknamed il Conte Tacchia – called an electoral rally at the Osteria dei Cessati Spiriti, by putting up a large number of posters, after having decided to run for the elections for the Chamber of Deputies in the lists of the Liberal Party.

[4] In 1890 – as attested by the marble plaque above the abreuvoir – the Bruni company moved to the street from its former headquarters in Via Tiburtina: the firm operated in the casting of statues until its shutdown in 1965.

The road appears in Fellini's film La Dolce Vita, in the scene in which Marcello and Maddalena take the prostitute Ninni to her house by car.