Rome, Italy | Piazza Navona

Rome (Roma) is a historic city, the capital city of Italy and of the Lazio region (Provincia di Lazio). Rome is located in the centre of the Italian peninsula, on the Tiber River (Tevere) about 24 km inland from the Tyrrhenian Coast. Rome is Italy’s most populated city and the third most populous city in the European Union. The name Roma came from the city's founder and first king, Romulus. Rome is the third in the ranking of popular tourist destinations in Europe and one of the most popular tourist cities in the world. The Colosseum and the Vatican, probably some of the most famous tourist attractions not only in Italy but also in the World, are visited by more than 4 million people annually. The large number of unique archaeological monuments and culture art treasures, museums, beautiful parks and the wonderful atmosphere of the city make the tourists visiting Rome wishing to return here, in the “Eternal City”.
Piazza Navona is a public open space in Rome, Italy, built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian,
The Stadium of Domitian was built in the 1st century AD by the Emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus
but fell into ruin after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire. Piazza Navona was defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century and follows the form of the stadium. It is a significant example of Baroque Roman architecture with the famous Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi) designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the Obelisk of Domitian, brought in pieces from the Circus of Maxentius and the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone. Piazza Navona has two more fountains: Fontana del Moro with a basin and four Tritons sculpted by Giacomo della Porta (1575) to which, in 1673, Bernini added a statue of a Moor, wrestling with a dolphin at the southern end and the Fountain of Neptune also created by Giacomo della Porta in 1574 at the northern end.
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