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Piazza Navona is one of the largest and most beautiful squares of Rome.
The shape follows closely the area of the Stadium of Domitian which in some places you can still see the remains.
The remaking of the square is due to Pope Innocent X Pamphili, which commissioned the architects Carlo and Girolamo Rainaldi to the creation of an aristocratic palace, which had a large square courtyard as a bit 'as they did before him, the Farnese and Barberini, and the church S. Agnese in Agone, architects demolished many huts, bundling them and other scratch built the Palazzo Pamphili.
Piazza Navona hosts a witch navona Piazza the traditional market of the Befana, a kind of market of toys and candy that is held annually from December 8th to the night of Epiphany, now has fallen a bit 'in disuse, and the stalls are more like those of any fair second-order but was once the delight of Roman children ..... writer included.
Piazza Navona offers the visitor from any access road, with wonderful views of fountains, palaces and artistic churches, all within a unique atmosphere made up of several different layers of humanity .... from street's artists; the Bar with outdoor seating; the mothers who bring their sons to the streets as if it were a public park; by the international buttocks glazing marble balustrades and stainless steels of the fountains, by retirees who are looking for a corner without cars and the cops ever present and ever vigilant in observing the beauty above all human circulating in Piazza Navona .....
Dominates the spectacular Four Rivers Fountain by Bernini depicting four major rivers: the Ganges, the Nile (with the head veiled because its sources were unknown), the Danube and the Rio de la Plata, the four figures surrounding a large granite obelisk height of 16.5 meters found in the Circus of Maxentius, but most likely from the Temple of Isis.
Other figures in the fountain are: The Lion, the horse, the serpent of the earth and the sea, all figures against or protruding from the precious rocks carved directly by GL Bernini.
The Fountain of the Rivers also won the beautiful Church of the competition
Borromini's St. Agnes in Agone, which architect concave facade and putting two agile towers at the sides, the dome did stand out more.
Inside the church are many works on display, stand the blades of the altars and decorations of the dome, also to secure relief is the so-called Summer Sacristy.
Pope Innocent X Pamphili, he also built the beautiful building to the left of the church of S. Agnese in Agone, is currently the Brazilian Embassy, the project was entrusted to G. Rainaldi who completed the work in 1650.
Another church overlooks the Piazza Navona, this is the fifteenth-century Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore (formerly St. James of the Spaniards) works within this Renaissance church ended up in large part to the Prado museum, the church with 'arrival of French missionaries of the Sacred Heart had as its main entrance piazza Navona, then in 1936 he was transferred to the main entrance during the Corso Rinascimento.
Inside, a beautiful chapel by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger.
Two more beautiful fountains adorn the Navona square: the Fountain of the Moro and the Fountain of Neptune.
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