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A fascinating underground itinerary in the Rome of the imperial age, the real nerve centre of the cultural and political life of the Eternal City.
Named after the close-by 17th-century College of Neophytes or Catechumens, the fountain that adorns Piazza della Madonna dei Monti, today the central meeting point in the Monti dis
[...]The fountain is placed in the center of a small square near a junction of four tree-lined paths and was built between 1790 and 1791 to replace the previous fountain of the Mascherone or della Vela,
[...]The current fountain of the Lions replaced a sixteenth century fountain by Giacomo Della Porta moved to Piazza Nicosia in 1950.
Commissioned by Pope Innocent X Pamphilj (1644-1655) to adorn the square that would have magnified the grandeur of his pontificate – with the monumental family palace and the nearb
[...]In early 18th-century Rome, the ancient area of the Forum Boarium was still sparsely populated.
The fountain of the Babuino (Baboon), so renamed by the Roman people because of its ugliness recalling the figure of a monkey in the statue above the basin, was originally a "semi-
[...]A male figure with a badly-damaged face holds a barrel in his hands, out of which flows a stream of water creating a little fountain: it is the so-called Fountain of the Porter leaning against the
[...]The River Fountain which dates back to the 17th century, is located inside Villa Celimontana, on the Celio hill.
The fountain of the Moro (Moor) is fed by the Acqua Vergine and situated on the Southern side of Piazza Navona
[...]Created by the Ticinese stonemason Filippo Bai, the Fontana del Navigante adorned the hemicycle above Porto di Ripetta, essential access to the city.
The fountain of Nettuno (Neptune) is placed in the Western hemicycle of Piazza del Popolo on t
[...]Created by the sculptor Leonardo Sormani, on a 1575 design by the architect Giacomo Della Porta (1533-1602), the fountain of the Pantheon was one
[...]Located in via Goffredo Mameli, on the slopes of the Janiculum Hill, the ancient Fountain of the Prisoner was built in 1587-1590, as an ornament of the garden of Villa Mont
[...]The fountain, also known as Cupid’s, stands in the center of the Garden of the Villa Pamphilj Theater and was built in 1855 by the architect Andrea Busiri
[...]Along Lungotevere Tor di Nona, the fountain stands at the point where, in Roman times, there was a docking of the river, used for the landing of marble and, in the Middle Ages, for
[...]The splendid Triton Fountain, a masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, was built between the en
[...]Located in the Nomentano district, in front of the Church of Sant’Agnese, the fountain was built on the initiative of the Municipality of Rome in 1900, in a rural
[...]In Piazza Trilussa, you can find the beautiful fountain of Acqua Paola, also known as
[...]The fountain is located in Piazza San Giovanni in Laterano at the foot of the imposing red granite obelisk, the tallest and the most ancient in Rome, raised by Domenico Fon
[...]The Garbatella, off the well-known paths of the historic centre, is one of the most evocative and fascinating districts of Rome.
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