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The Trevi Fountain ( Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762 [ 1] and several others. Standing 26.3 metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide, [ 2] it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city ...
Coordinates: 41°53′56″N 12°28′23″E. / 41.89889°N 12.47306°E / 41.89889; 12.47306. Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi ( Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza as ...
The 18th-century Trevi Fountain at night. Fontana del Tritone (1642). Fountains of St. Peter's Square by Carlo Maderno (1614) and Bernini (1677). Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1648-51); detail of the River Ganges. Fountain in front of Villa Medici on the Pincio. This is a list of the notable fountains in Rome, Italy.
Fontana dell'Acqua Felice. / 41.90436°N 12.49442°E / 41.90436; 12.49442. The Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, also called the Fountain of Moses, [1] is a monumental fountain located in the Quirinale District of Rome, Italy. It marked the terminus of the Acqua Felice aqueduct restored by Pope Sixtus V. It was designed by Domenico Fontana and ...
Piazza Navona ( pronounced [ˈpjattsa naˈvoːna]) is a public open space in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian and follows the form of the open space of the stadium in an elongated oval. [ 1] The ancient Romans went there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as " Circus Agonalis ...
Standing 85 feet tall and 160 feet wide, the fountain was once revered as the best water source in Rome, supplying the Vatican itself with weekly barrels of water for centuries. However, the water ...
Fontana del Tritone (Triton Fountain) is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini, [1] near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (which now houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica) that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's ...
Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy. Click on the map for a fullscreen view. Coordinates: 41°53′59.35″N 12°28′22.95″E. / 41.8998194°N 12.4730417°E / 41.8998194; 12.4730417. The Fountain of Neptune ( Italian: Fontana del Nettuno) is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located at the north end of the Piazza Navona. [1]