The Trevi Fountain (Italian:
Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed
by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Pietro Bracci. Standing 26.3
metres (86 ft) high and 49.15 metres (161.3 ft) wide, it is the largest Baroque
fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. The
fountain has appeared in several notable films, including Federico Fellini's La
Dolce Vita and the eponymous Three Coins in the Fountain. The fountain at the
junction of three roads (tre vie) marks the terminal point of the
"modern" Acqua Vergine, the revived Aqua Virgo, one of the aqueducts
that supplied water to ancient Rome. In 19 BC, supposedly with the help of a
virgin, Roman technicians located a source of pure water some 13 km (8.1 mi)
from the city. However, the eventual indirect route of the aqueduct made its
length some 22 km (14 mi). This Aqua Virgo led the water into the Baths of
Agrippa. It served Rome for more than 400 years.
Piazza Navona (pronounced [ˈpjattsa naˈvoːna]) is a piazza
in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian, built in
1st century AD, and follows the form of the open space of the stadium. The
ancient Romans went there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it
was known as "Circus Agonalis" ("competition arena"). It is
believed that over time the name changed to in avone to navone and eventually
to navona. Defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century, when
the city market was transferred there from the Campidoglio, Piazza Navona was
transformed into a highly significant example of Baroque Roman architecture and
art during the pontificate of Innocent X, who reigned from 1644 until 1655, and
whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced the piazza. It features
important sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the
famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers (1651) by Gian
Lorenzo Bernini, topped by the Obelisk of Domitian, brought in pieces from the
Circus of Maxentius; the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini,
Girolamo Rainaldi, Carlo Rainaldi and others; and the aforementioned Pamphili
palace, also by Girolamo Rainaldi, that accommodates the long gallery designed
by Borromini and frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.
Piazza del Popolo is a large urban square in Rome. The name
in modern Italian literally means "People's Square", but historically
it derives from the poplars (populus in Latin, pioppo in Italian) after which
the church of Santa Maria del Popolo, in the northeast corner of the piazza,
takes its name. The piazza lies inside the northern gate in the Aurelian Walls,
once the Porta Flaminia of ancient Rome, and now called the Porta del Popolo.
This was the starting point of the Via Flaminia, the road to Ariminum
(modern-day Rimini) and the most important route to the north. At the same
time, before the age of railroads, it was the traveller's first view of Rome
upon arrival. For centuries, the Piazza del Popolo was a place for public
executions, the last of which took place in 1826
Piazza di Spagna, at the bottom of the Spanish Steps, is one
of the most famous squares in Rome (Italy). It owes its name to the Palazzo di
Spagna, seat of the Embassy of Spain among the Holy See. Nearby is the famed
Column of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In the middle
of the square is the famous Fontana della Barcaccia, dating to the beginning of
the baroque period, sculpted by Pietro Bernini and his son, the more famous
Gian Lorenzo Bernini. At the right corner of the Spanish Steps rises the house
of the English poet John Keats, who lived there until his death in 1821:
nowadays it has been changed into a museum dedicated to him and his friend Percy
Bysshe Shelley, displaying books and memorabilia of English romanticism. At the
left corner there is the Babington's tea room, founded in 1893. The side near
Via Frattina is overlooked by the two façades (the main one, designed by Gian
Lorenzo Bernini, and the side one created by Francesco Borromini) of the
Palazzo di Propaganda Fide, a property of the Holy See. In front of it,
actually in a lengthening of Piazza di Spagna named Piazza Mignanelli, rises
the Column of the Immaculate Conception, erected in 1856, two years after the
proclamation of the dogma.
Piazza Venezia is the central hub of Rome, Italy, in which
several thoroughfares intersect, including the Via dei Fori Imperiali and the
Via del Corso. It takes its name from the Palazzo Venezia, built by the
Venetian Cardinal, Pietro Barbo (later Pope Paul II) alongside the church of
Saint Mark, the patron saint of Venice. The Palazzo Venezia served as the
embassy of the Republic of Venice in Rome. One side of the Piazza is the site
of Italy's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Altare della Patria, part of the
Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, first king of Italy. The piazza or square is
at the foot of the Capitoline Hill and next to Trajan's Forum. The main artery,
the Viale di Fori Imperiali begins there and leads past the Roman Forum to the
Colosseum. In 2009, during excavations in the middle of the square for the
construction of the Rome C Metro Line, remains of the emperor Hadrian's
Athenaeum were unearthed.
Campo de' Fiori (Italian: [ˈkampo de ˈfjoːri]) is a
rectangular square south of Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy, at the border between
rione Parione and rione Regola. It is diagonally southeast of the Palazzo della
Cancelleria and one block northeast of the Palazzo Farnese. Campo de' Fiori,
translated literally from Italian, means "field of flowers". The name
dates to the Middle Ages when the area was a meadow. In Ancient Rome the area
was unused space between Pompey's Theatre and the flood-prone Tiber. Though the
Orsini established themselves on the south flank of the space in the 13th
century, until the 15th century the square remained undeveloped. The first
church in the immediate vicinity was built during the pontificate of Boniface
IX (1389-1404), Santa Brigida a Campo de' Fiori; with the building-up of the
rione, the church has now come to face that part of the former square that is
now Piazza Farnese. In 1456 under Pope Callixtus III, Ludovico Cardinal
Trevisani paved the area as part of a large project to improve rione Parione.
This renewal was both the result and cause of several important buildings being
built in the surroundings; in particular, the Orsini palace on Campo de' Fiori
was rebuilt. The Renaissance Palazzo della Cancelleria can be seen in Vasi's
etching, rising majestically beyond the far right corner of the square.
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