Piazza Navona is a public open space in Rome. It was built on the site of the stadium of Domitian, built in the 1st century AD. Defined as a public space in the last years of the 15th century, when the city market was moved here from Campidoglio, Piazza Navona was transformed into a very significant example of Roman Baroque architecture and art during the pontificate of Innocent X, who ruled from 1644. until 1655, and whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, overlooked the square. There are two more fountains in Piazza Navona. In the southern part is the Fontana del Moro with a bowl and four tritons by Giacomo della Porta (1575), to which in 1673 Bernini added a statue of a Moor fighting a dolphin. In the northern part is the Fountain of Neptune (1574), also by Giacomo della Porta; a statue of Neptune by Antonio Della Bitta was added in 1878 to create a balance with La Fontana del Moro. Piazza Navona is one of the most beautiful and famous squares in Rome and in the world includes monuments like: Stabilimenti Spagnoli, Palazzo de Cupis, Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti, Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore, Palazzo Braschi (Museo di Roma), Sant'Agnese in Agone. Top rated hotels near the square Piazza Navona, hotels has 9+ Hotel Martis Palace 4*, Hotel De' Ricci 4*, Vanity Hotel Navona 2*
Piazza Navona is a public open space in Rome. It was built on the site of the stadium of Domitian, built in the 1st century AD.
Defined as a public space in the last years of the 15th century, when the city market was moved here from Campidoglio, Piazza Navona was transformed into a very significant example of Roman Baroque architecture and art during the pontificate of Innocent X, who ruled from 1644. until 1655, and whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, overlooked the square.
There are two more fountains in Piazza Navona. In the southern part is the Fontana del Moro with a bowl and four tritons by Giacomo della Porta (1575), to which in 1673 Bernini added a statue of a Moor fighting a dolphin. In the northern part is the Fountain of Neptune (1574), also by Giacomo della Porta; a statue of Neptune by Antonio Della Bitta was added in 1878 to create a balance with La Fontana del Moro.
Piazza Navona is one of the most beautiful and famous squares in Rome and in the world includes monuments like: Stabilimenti Spagnoli, Palazzo de Cupis, Palazzo Torres Massimo Lancellotti, Church of Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore, Palazzo Braschi (Museo di Roma), Sant'Agnese in Agone.
Top rated hotels near the square Piazza Navona, hotels has 9+ Hotel Martis Palace 4*, Hotel De' Ricci 4*, Vanity Hotel Navona 2*
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