Piazza Navona, Rome. Fountain of the Four Rivers, Bernini, Baroque art, XVII century.
The Piazza Navona is one of the most famous squares in Rome and around the world for the beauty of the artworks present in it. The square follows the route of an ancient stadium, the Stadium of Domitian, first century when the Romans came to him to see agones ("games"). He was known as Circus Agonalis. It is thought that over time the name changed in agone to navone and eventually to Navona. It is estimated that had capacity for 30,000 spectators and you can still see some remains of the old structure north of the square. Defined as a place in the last years of the fifteenth century when the market moved from the Capitol here, Navona Square belongs to the Roman Baroque stage, specifically the papacy of Innocent X. It sculptural and architectural creations, like the beautiful sources Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The most important of these is located in the center: the Fountain of the Four Rivers, in 1651, representing the four major rivers of the then known world. There was a rivalry between Bernini and Borromini and you can see that one of the four rivers is with the hands, protectively in front of the church because he feared that Borromini built collapsed. By Francesco Borromini and Girolamo Rainaldi, the church of St. Agnes in Agona (Saint Agnes in Agone). The market is held in this square was transferred in 1869 to Campo dei Fiori. The square has hosted theatrical performances and horse racing. After 1652, every Saturday and Sunday in August, the square became a lake in honor of the Pamphili family. This party was abolished in 1866. The Piazza Navona contains two other fountains sculpted by Giacomo della Porta - the Fontana di Nettuno (1574), located in the north of the Piazza Navona and the Fontana del Moro (1576), located at the southern.
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Location: Piazza Navona, Rome, Italy
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