Piazza Navona and the fountains of Rome

Only a private tour guide of Rome can be excited when entering in the baroque scenario of Piazza Navona to describe the sparkling water coming from the fountains designed by the art master genious Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Piazza Navona is a Roman piazza that still has the shape and dimensions (240x65mt) of the Stadium of Domitian (it was called in the ancient Rome Circus Agonalis) who was a Roman Emperor of the Flavian family (81-96 A.D.) on which remains are the actual buildings delimitating this area.

Piazza Navona can only be visited walking inside of it and making a fascinating promenade tour around its curious elliprical shape.

On its western side there is Palazzo Pamphili made by Girolamo Rainaldi from 1644 to 1650 and today seat of the Brazilian Embassy with Pietro da Cortona's frescoes in the principal room's vault. The church of Sant'Agnese in Agone was began by GirolamoRainaldi in 1632 and was finished in 1650, almost entirely built by Borromini. On the opposite side the church of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was built for the Jubilee of 1450.

The monumental complex of the square has three fountains: the Fountain of the Moor, the Fountain of the Neptune (also called fountain of Calderari for the vicinity of many workshops nearby) with their basins designed and built by Giacomo Della Porta, and the famous Fountain of the Four Rivers, began in 1647 and finished in 1651 by Gianlorenzo Bernini under Pope Gregorio XIII° and representing the four most important rivers of the epoch (the Danube with a horse, the Nile with a lion, the Rio de la Plata with an armadillo and the Gange with a snake).

Actually we can see sightseeing around Piazza Navona in Rome,there many painters exposing their works (like in the Paris artists' square called Montmartre), many "living statues" (they are mimes in fact), and many character designers giving to that beautiful square a funny touch of different art .

The Roman Archaeology reused by the baroque artists can happen only in the most beautiful city in the world and if you really want to smell the weight of the centuries, sit down relax on our minibuses and we'll take care of describing you what you never saw and you never imagined: the marvels of Rome.