List of fountains in Rome

This incomplete list of fountains in Rome represents a selection of fountains in Rome.

General

The number of fountains in Rome is in the thousands. Around 2,500 so-called nasoni are scattered all over the city - small iron drinking fountains with curved, nose-shaped spouts, from which water runs day and night.

History of the fountain in Rome

Some of these fountains are the end point of one of the eleven great aqueducts that once supplied ancient Rome with water. See also water supply in the Roman Empire . In ancient times the aqueducts led to nymphaea , sanctuaries in honor of the nymphs . At the beginning of modern times , the popes in particular had pompous mostra erected in their place , displays of their power. Examples are the Trevi Fountain and the Moses Fountain.

List of fountains in Rome

The two fountains in Piazza Farnese are of ancient origin . The two stone tubs come from the Caracalla thermal baths .

At the foot of the Spanish Steps is the Barcaccia Fountain (Fontana della Barcaccia) by Pietro Bernini , the father of Gian Lorenzo Bernini . From 1627 to 1629 Bernini senior built the fountain in the form of a sinking barge in order - according to legend - to commemorate the Tiber flood of Christmas 1598, when a Tiber barge ran aground here. Indeed, in this way the artist solved a technical problem: the water pressure was too low to feed a higher well.

Another work by Bernini is the bee fountain on the corner of Piazza Barberini and Via Veneto. The bee was the heraldic animal of the Barberini family. The fountain, built in 1644, was the victim of an act of vandalism on July 20, 2004 in which one of the marble bees was destroyed.

The Dioscuri fountain is in the Piazza del Quirinale.

The Moses fountain (Fontane dell 'Acqua Felice) at the Piazza San Bernardo is the end point of the aqueduct Aqua Felix, named after Pope Sixtus V (real name Felice Peretti) . It shows Moses knocking water out of the rock.

The Naiad Fountain in Piazza della Repubblica was built in 1901 by Mario Rutelli.

The turtle fountain (Fontana delle tartarughe) was built between 1581 and 1584 according to plans by Giacomo della Porta . The turtles were not added until 1658.

The Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) is the end point of the ancient aqueduct Aqua Virgo . In its late baroque form, it was built between 1732 and 1762 according to plans by Nicola Salvi .

The Triton Fountain in Piazza Barberini is a work by Gian Lorenzo Bernini from 1642.

The Triton Fountain (Fontana dei Tritoni) on the Piazza della Bocca della Verità was built in 1715, in its current form, according to the plans of the architect Carlo Francesco Bizzaccheri in honor of Pope Clement XI Albani (1700–1721). The basin is shaped like a star. In the center of it sit on a rock mountain, back to back, two tritons , their tails intertwined. They carry a shell in the shape of a shell on which the papal coat of arms is located.

The four fountains (Le Quattro Fontane) are a baroque fountain system made up of four individual marble fountains (Tiber, Juno, Diana and Arno fountains) at the corner of the intersection of Via Quirinale and Via delle Quattro Fontane on the top of the Quirinal hill.

The Fontana Paola (completely Fontana dell'Acqua Paola, Italian also short Fontanone, large fountain) on the Via Garibaldi on the Gianicolo. It was built from 1610 to 1612 [1] at the instigation of Pope Paul V.

The Fontana della Terrina on the Piazza della Chiesa Nuova was built around 1590.

The Four Rivers Fountain (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi) was built by Bernini in 1651 in the center of Piazza Navona . It carries an obelisk and represents the four continents known at the time by means of their great rivers: the Danube for Europe , the Nile for Africa , the Ganges for Asia and the Río de la Plata for America . There is a very similar fountain by Bernini in Lyon . Other fountains in Piazza Navona are the Fontana del Moro and the Neptune Fountain .