Piazza Navona

Piazza Navona

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Garden/Square Stroll around

Ali spectacular! ! "Fountain of the Four Rivers" Bernini

One of the most beautiful square, Piazza Navona. You can see the fountain of three compelling! The square central obelisk · Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi of fountain type of statue anthropomorphic (Nile, Ganges, Danube, La Plata River) the river of four called "Fountain of the Four Rivers", to the south of the "Moorish I am overlooking the fountain "and" Neptune fountain ", to the north. It is a square with quite spectacular.
Stadium to the 1st century AD, Emperor Domitian was built is now based here. It is known that some close, the most famous morning market will be held in Rome just around the corner "Campo dei Fiori" is also in the Pantheon.

Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi

Allegory of the Ganges River

followed by a paddle serpent who is under.

Allegory of the Nile

It has a pose unusual. This indicates that you did not know from where the water source of the Nile or are coming at that time.

Allegory of the Rio de la Plata

This one is famous anecdote of "posing for pressing by hand church to come fall." It is to be a myth of Rome who had ridiculed the designer of the church, which has been active in the same era as the author of the Bernini fountain, the odds of Borromini.

Allegory of the Danube

Only Danube, a river of Europe. It is a big river in the second about 2,860 km extension, in Europe.

Obelisk

Length of the point of going to reach heaven! And together with the fountain, we liven up the square.

Fontana del Moro

Moors (UK: Moors) is the designation of Islam Muslims of northwest Africa. It is used to refer to Berber mainly.
Sculpture represents the "Moorish fight with dolphins", I was built on the basis of a sketch of a Bernini.

Fontana del Nettuno

Statue of Cupid and hippocampus that are based on mythology Nereids, statues of Neptune and fighting octopus.
19 century, sculpture was treated by the basin which was made in the 16th century.