The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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Leaning against the ancient walls of the Passetto, a few steps from the Colonnade of St Peter’s
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Located next to the Arch of Porta Furba, between the Felix Aqueduct and the Via Tuscolana, the Fountain of Clement XII, although little kn
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As the plaque above it proclaims, the small marble fountain was built by an unknown artist in 1774, at the time of Pope Clement XIV, on the occasion of the restora
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Built in 1589 by Giacomo Della Porta, the fountain consists of a boat-shaped pond with a decorated shaft on a cube base that holds a basin.


Designed by Giacomo Della Porta in 1589 and built by Pompilio De Benedetti, the fountain consists of an octagonal travertine base on which rests a cup with the same shape.

This fountain was designed by Giacomo Della Porta and built by the sculptor Rocco Rossi from Fiesole in 1575 and completed in 1577.

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


The wall-fountain fed by Acqua Vergine in Piazza della Cancelleria is a work by Publio Morbiducci winner in 1928 of a competition announced by the Municipality for the replacement of ten small cast
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In 1587, under the pontificate of Pope Sixtus V, the restoration and reparation of the ancient Alexandrian Aqueduct were completed.

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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In the square overlooking the wonderful Basilica of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, we find a notewo
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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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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 Pa
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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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The two inscriptions with the pope’s coat ofarms that dominate the fountain commemorate the building of the fountain in 1565 under Pious the Fourth Medici (1559-1565) and its restoration in 1713 un
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The fountain, inserted into the parapet of the wall of the Lungotevere Testaccio, was built according to a design by the architect Antonio Muñoz (
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The most famous of the Roman fountains: a jewel of water and stone

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).

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 perime
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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.

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