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 FARNESE GARDENS: ORTI FARNESIANI
These Farnese Gardens were realized by the architect Vignola for the Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, grandson of Pope Paul III in 1520-1589, as a reconstruction in form of a garden, of the plan of the Palace of Tiberius, that occupied this area before i...
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 FORUM BOARIUM
This area is now called Piazza Bocca della Verità and is where the ancient livestock market was once located (Foro Boario); it is embellished by an 18th c. fountain that borrows the theme of Bernini's fountain of the Triton in Piazza Barberini, as we...
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 FORUM OF AUGUSTUS
Emperor Augustus built another forum close to the one of Cesar. It was larger and was protected by a high wall. In the center was a Temple of Mars Ultor (the Avenger), which Augustus promised to erect during a battle with Philipps in 42 B.C. revengin...
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 FORUM OF CESAR
This forum is the oldest of the five Imperial Forums, built in 51-41 B.C. by Julius Caesar after the conquering of Gaul, who supplied this construction with the needed financial resources. It was located on a square of circa 160m x 75m. On the short ...
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 FORUM OF NERVA
Emperor Nerva finished construction of this Forum in 96-98 A.D., which was begun by Domitian on the area between Forum of Augustus and Forum of Vespasian. It was also named Forum Transitorium due to a street that crossed it, the Argiletum, which lead...
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 FOUNTAIN OF ACQUA PAOLA
The majestic show-fountain of acqua Paola known as the "fontanone del Gianicolo" was created for pope Paolo V Borghese (1605-1621) by Giovanni Fontana and Flaminio Ponzio and completed by Carlo Fontana with the enormous white marble basin. The mon...
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 FOUNTAIN OF MOSES
This show-fountain of the Felice waters, so-called to honour Pope Sisto V ( Felice Peretti), who restored the aqueduct of the Alessandrina waters, is the work of the brothers Giovanni and Domenico Fontana in 1587. It was built in travertine with thre...
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 FOUNTAIN OF PIAZZA NICOSIA
The first public fountain in modern Rome, designed by Giacomo della Porta, was erected in piazza del Popolo before the other eighteen ordered after the re-activation of the Vergine aqueduct, in 1572. It was frequently moved and finally removed in 182...
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 FOUNTAIN OF PIAZZA S.PIETRO
Pope Alessandro VII Chigi commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to build the famous colonnade in the square, replacing the already existing fountain of Maderno, built in an asymetric position in respect to the façade of the Basilica, and to balance the o...
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 FOUNTAIN OF PIAZZA SANTA MARIA IN TRASTEVERE
According to tradition this is probably the oldest monumental fountain in Rome. It appeared in a map of the city in 1471 by Pietro de Massaio. The church of Santa Maria in Trastevere was originally known as Sancta Maria in fontibus. It is thought tha...
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 FOUNTAIN OF PIAZZA ST.ANDREA DELLA VALLE
The fountain with its classical motifs was built for Pope Paolo V. Borghese (1605-1621) to stand in the square in front of the church of Santa Maria in Trasportina, following the plans of the architect, Carlo Maderno. It consists of an elegant basin ...
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 FOUNTAIN OF PIAZZA TRILUSSA
The large travertine fountain of the Sisto bridge (show-fountain of the Paola waters) was constructed in 1613 for Paolo V Borghese (1605-1621) by Giovanni Vasanzio (the Flemish Van Zanten). It was originally placed at the end of the elegant Via Giuli...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE ANFORE
The architect Pietro Lombardi in the 20's won a competition run by the municipality of Rome to design some local fountains. His most imposing work is the fountain of the Anfore for the Testaccio zone where, over the centuries, with the broken jars f...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE ARTISTS
Following the plans of the architect Pietro Lombardi, this fountain was built in 1927 and represents the artists' symbols. Two artists' easels on which rest two grotesque masks stand on the original triangular base, one is sad, the other happy, under...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE BABOON
Pope Pious IV Medici (1558-1565) established the habit of the fountains known as "semi-public" when the pope granted water to those private citizens who promised to build and pay for a public fountain near his property. The name of Via del Babuino wa...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE BARREL
In the Trastevere quarter on the corner between via della Cisterna and via San Francesco a Ripa a fountain was built in 1927 known as the Fountain of the Barrel, the work of the architect Pietro Lombardi to show the traditional presence in the area o...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE BEES
Immediately following work on the Triton Fountain, Bernini was given the job of planning a small drinking fountain for horses, usually to be found near all monumental fountains. This pleasant example of Roman baroque design was demolished in 1867 and...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE BOOKS
The Fontanella dei Libri was constructed in 1927 in travertino following the designs of Pietro Lombardi for the quarter of St.Eustacchio and it is for this reason that the district symbol of a deer's head appears in the niche surrounded by four antiq...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE MOOR
This fountain, erected in 1574 following the plans of Giacomo della Porta during the reign of Pope Gregory XIII Boncompagni, was completely restored in 1653 by Bernini who had received orders from Pope Innocence X Pamphilj. During the restoration of ...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE NAIADI
This is the most beautiful of all the modern Roman fountains. Built in 1888 following the designs of Alessandro Guerrieri who placed four chalk lions around the large circular basin. These were then replaced in 1901 by four bronze groups by the sculp...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE PANTHEON
In 1575 Giacomo Della Porta, under orders from Pope Gregory XIII Boncompagni, designed elegant plans for a fountain to place in the centre of the square. Leonardo Sormani carried out the work composed of a multi-linear shell raised on three travertin...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE PORTER
One of the most famous "talking statues" (Pasquino is its famous and pungent interloculator) known as the "Facchino" (porter) represents a water-seller in his characteristic costume. According to others, it is dedicated to the wine carriers and repro...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE PRISONER
Villa Montalto, owned by Sisto V Peretti (1585-1590) and found on the Esquilino hill, was the largest private property within the city walls. At the end of the nineteenth century, precisely in 1877, the whole area was divided up to build the Termini ...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE RIVERS
Pope Innocence X Pamphilj authorised work on the removal of the obelisk from the Circo Massenzio and its placement in Piazza Navona, according to Bernini's project. Around this monolith were placed four white marble statues, five metres tall which re...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE SINKING BOAT
Pietro Bernini, father of Gian Lorenzo, designed the characteristic fountain, commissioned by Pope Urban VIII Barberini. Stories tell that Bernini was inspired by an old boat beached during the overflowing of the river Tiber in 1598. It was construct...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE SMALL BOAT
On the Celio hill in front of the church of Santa Maria in Dominica also known as "in navicula", with its ceiling containing small boats floating on the waters, restored by Cardinal Medici who became pope under the name of Leone X, is the fountain...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE TORTOISES
The splendid fountain known as "the Tortoise" is a magical creation by Giacomo della Porta that admirably combines water, architecture and sculpture. It is also happily inserted into a corner of Rome that has remained more or less the same as when it...
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 FOUNTAIN OF THE WINGED VICTORIES
This was based on a Roman sarcophagus carved with garlands of fruit and masks, winged Victories and two dolphins placed at the sides of a grotesque mask which pours water into the basin below. The grotesque mask ( by Della Porta) is one of the four f...
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 FOUNTAIN OF TREVI
This is the most imposing, scenographic and artistically worthy of all fountains not only in Rome. When, at the beginning of 1730, Pope Clemente XII decided to substitute the beautiful fountian designed by Leon Battista Alberti in 1453 with one of im...
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