Piazza Navona - La fontana del Bernini
La fontana dei Fiumi: il Gange (scultore C. Adam

La fontana del tirreno Vittoriano

Piazza Navona - La fontana del Bernini
La fontana dei Fiumi: il Nilo (scultore G. A. Fancelli

Piazza Navona - La fontana del Bernini
La fontana dei Fiumi: il Danubio (scultore Antonio Raggi)

La Fontana delle Tartarughe
Un gioiello del Rinascimento

The Moro Fountain was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and sculpted by Giovanni Antonio Mari in 1653.

Located at the southern end of Piazza Navona, it is symmetrically opposite the Neptune fountain by Giacomo della Porta, built in the previous century. Between the two fountains there is a third - the beautiful Quattro Fiumi fountain by Bernini. Bonetti, a famous Roman poet, wrote about the people's love for the fountain. It was about an Englishwoman who wanted to buy the fountain at any cost. However the pontifex refused because he didn't want the Romans to be deprived of this wonderful work of art. They say that the English lady died from grief at the refusal.

Fontana degli Artisti

Where would the Margutta fountain be if not in Via Margutta, the artists' street? It was designed by the architect Pietro Lombardi in 1927 as part of a series of fountains that were supposed to improve the appearance of the city and to replace the unattractive cast iron fountains. Ornamentation on the fountain is in the form of artists' tools: brushes, callipers, palettes and easels. The two masks from which the water gushes into small square tanks are rather curious. They have contrasting expressions, one cheerful and the other sad, and are supposed to represent the contrasting fortunes of artists.

This little fountain, somewhat hidden behind the flocks of scooters that surround it, was dubbed "babuino" because of the ugliness of the statue that represents a Sileno with his bagpipe. It was erected during the papacy of Gregory XIII in the second half of the 16th century and was thought of as a rival to the statua del Pasquino, and the lesser-known "babuinate" were rivals to the famous "pasquinate".