The Flavian Amphitheatre (The Colosseum)

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


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

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


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

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 perimeter walls.

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.

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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Opposite the Accademia di Francia in Villa Medici, near one of the numerous fascinatin
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In the Rione Ludovisi, on the corner between Via Leonida Bissolati, Via Sallustiana and Via Friu
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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





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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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.

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.

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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