Go into side streets preciso avoid the high pricesIt represents per Moor, or African (perhaps originally meant onesto be Neptune), standing mediante verso conch shell, wrestling with verso dolphin, surrounded by four Tritons
I would recommend going per the mornings, as it is much quieter, and the sellers are not about in the mornings! Don’t miss an Italian ice cream sitting at the posh “3 Scalini” (3 steps) restaurant or, better, buy Tartufo mediante 9.5 euros (see Tip below). We shall pass through Agora Navona durante many of Esempi di profilo aisle our trips durante Rome .
It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built per 1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium. The ancient Romans came there esatto watch the agones (“games”), and hence it was known as “Circus Agonalis” (“competition anfiteatro”). It is believed that over time the name changed sicuro sopra avone onesto navone and eventually esatto Navona.
Sorgente dei quattro fiumi (four rivers) or Fountain of the Four Rivers (1651) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, topped by the Obelisk of Domitian, brought here sopra pieces from the Circus of Maxentius. The luogo of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which rocks rise to support four river gods and above them, an ancient Egyptian obelisk surmounted with the Pamphili family emblem of a ove with an olive twig. Collectively, they represent four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the Rio de la Plata representing the Americas.
Fontana del Bruno (Moor Fountain): The Southern most fountain. The fountain was originally designed by Giacomo della Ingresso sopra 1575 with the dolphin and four Tritons. Mediante 1653, the statue of the Moor, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, was added. Per 1874, during per restoration of the fountain, the original statues were moved preciso the Scavo Conservatore and replaced with copies.ادامه خواندن
