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Piazza dei Quiriti

In 1924, a competition was launched to build 5 fountains in newly built neighborhoods.

Fontana in piazza delle Cinque Scole
Piazza Delle Cinque Scole

In 1587, under the pontificate of Pope Sixtus V, the restoration and reparation of the ancient Alexandrian Aqueduct were completed.

Piazza Giuseppe Mazzini

On the occasion of the arrangement of the central part of Piazza Mazzini, the architect Raffaele De Vico realised the large fountain - inspired by an ancient nymphaeum

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Fontana di Piazza Nicosia Foto Sovrintendenza
Piazza Nicosia

One of the oldest Renaissance fountains in Rome, it is also called the "Trullo fountain", because it was once placed in the middle of "Piazza del Trullo", now

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Fontana di Piazza S. Andrea della Valle Ph. Turismo Roma
Piazza di Sant'Andrea della Valle

Commissioned by Paul the Fifth Borghese(1605-1621) and designed by Maderno, it was built in 1614 and placed in Piazza Scossacavalli in front of Palazzo Campeggi, residence of cardinal Scipione Borg

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Fontana di Piazza S. Croce in Gerusalemme Ph. Turismo Roma
Piazza di Santa Croce in Gerusalemme

The fountain is a work by V. Cafiero and was inaugurated in 1928.

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Piazza di Santa Maria Maggiore

The fountain is placed at the foot of a colossal fluted column with a Corinthian capital, coming from the Basilica of Maxentius.

Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere

This is one of the most ancient monumental fountains in Rome, already documented in a map of Rome made by Pietro del Massaio in 1471, and for a long time it was also the only publi

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Fontana di Piazzale degli Eroi-Foto: Sovrintendenza Capitolina
Piazzale degli Eroi

Built in 1949 in view of the Holy Year of 1950 as an exhibition of the waters of the Peschiera aqueduct - which has its own natural springs near Cittaducale (Rieti

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Piazza Mastai

A few years before the breach of Porta Pia that put an end to the tem

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 Fontana di Pio IX in Lungotevere Testaccio ph. sito web Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
Lungotevere Testaccio

The water flows in a pond consisting of a Roman sarcophagus that receives water from a lion head.

Fontana di Trevi
Piazza di Trevi

The most famous of the Roman fountains: a jewel of water and stone

Fontana di Pio IX a Via Annia
Via Annia

This fountain was originally placed in a wash-house facing the basilica di San Clemente. It was designed in 1864 by Virgilio Vespignani under pope Pious the Ninth Mastai Ferretti (1846-1878).

Fontana di via Cesare Baronio ph. sito web Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
Via Cesare Baronio, 141

In 1980, following the excavation of an embankment in the roadway, a large rectangular basin was brought to light, with a continuous bench against the inner perimeter walls.

Foto sovraintendenzaroma.it
Via degli Staderari

The fountain, formed by a large basin in Egyptian granite from Assuan, rests on a Carrara marble base in the centre of a large peperino basin.

 Fontana di via di San Gregorio ph. Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
Via di San Gregorio

The fountain, designed by Muñoz and inaugurated in 1933, is part of the wider arrangement of the area, characterised by the Municipal Antiquarium (reopened in 1929) and the widening of the road - t

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 Fontana di Villa Medici
Viale della Trinità dei Monti, 1

Opposite the Accademia di Francia in Villa Medici, near one of the numerous fascinatin

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Piazza Pietro d'Illiria

As we see it today, the beautiful fountain leaning against a niche in the boundary wall of Savello Park, better known as the

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Fontana Sallustiana
Fontana Sallustiana, Via Friuli, 00187 Roma RM

In the Rione Ludovisi, on the corner between Via Leonida Bissolati, Via Sallustiana and Via Friu

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Via Bocca di Leone

When Prince Don Marino Torlonia bought the current Nuñez-Torlonia palace, built in 1660 by Giovanni Antonio De Rossi for the Marquis Francesco Nuñez-Sanchez, he restored it and added a fountain

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Piazza D'Aracoeli

Arranged symmetrically at its base, two black basalt Egyptian lions have for centuries guarded the access to

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Piazza Farnese - Foto Profilo ufficiale Facebook Ambassade de France en Italie
Piazza Farnese

In the first half of the 16th century, Pope Paul III ordered to move to Piazza Farnese – the main square of the

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Fontane di piazza San Pietro
Piazza San Pietro
In the heart of world Christianity are the "almost" twin fountains located symmetrically in the centre of the two hemicycles of the Berninian colonnade and a straight line with t
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Fontana sarcofago lato Basilica Santa Maria del Popolo ph Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali
Piazza del Popolo

Entering the magnificent Piazza del Popolo, after crossing the

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Bassorilievo a via della Scrofa
Via della Scrofa

The small marble sow that gives the street its name, perhaps the fragment of an ancient bas-relief, is documented since 1445 as applied to the wall of the former convent of Sant’Agostino

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Fontanella di via di San Vito ph. Turismo Roma
Via di San Vito

This small district fountain by P. Lombardi (1927) is placed in the surroundings of the Arch of Gallienus, the ancient Porta Esquilina in the Servian Walls.

Fontanella di Via Paolina ph. Turismo Roma
Via Paolina

The fountain was designed by Marcelliano Mariano Ginesi and built in 1930. It consists of two pilasters resting on a base that frame the central composition.

Fontanone dell'Acqua Paola (Fontanone del Gianicolo)
Via Garibaldi

Designed and built to mark the terminus of the Trajan Aqueduct, between 1610 and 1614, by architects Giovanni Fontana (1540-1614) and Flaminio Ponzio

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