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Fontana di San Leo

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Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Fontana di San Leo
Phone:
+39 800 553 800

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5pm
Monday10am - 5pm
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza as did the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor. The base of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which travertine rocks rise to support four river gods and above them, a copy of an Egyptian obelisk surmounted with the Pamphili family emblem of a dove with an olive twig. Collectively, they represent four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the Río de la Plata representing the Americas.
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