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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of the city, Rome had nine aqueducts which fed 39 monumental fountains and 591 public basins, not counting the water supplied to the Imperial ...
Fontana del Pantheon. / 41.8992083°N 12.47667°E / 41.8992083; 12.47667. The Fontana del Pantheon (English: Fountain of the Pantheon) was commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII and is located in the Piazza della Rotonda, Rome, in front of the Roman Pantheon. It was designed by Giacomo Della Porta in 1575 and sculpted out of marble by ...
Hadrian's Villa(Italian: Villa Adriana; Latin: Villa Hadriana) is a UNESCO World Heritage Sitecomprising the ruins and archaeological remains of a large villacomplex built around AD 120 by Roman emperorHadriannear Tivolioutside Rome. It is the most imposing and complex Roman villa known. The complex contains over 30 monumental and scenic ...
The 5 most visited places in Rome are: #1 Pantheon (8 million tourists a year), #2 The Colosseum (7.036.104 tourists a year), #3 Trevi Fountain (3.5 million tourists a year), #4 Sistine Chapel (3 million tourists a year) and #5 The Roman Forum (2.5 million tourists a year). The study was conducted by the Ministero dei Beni e della Attivita ...
This page is a glossary of architecture . A flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column. A sculptural embellishment of an arch. The subsidiary space alongside the body of a building, separated from it by columns, piers, or posts. The space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood ...