VINCENZO SCARFATO

Piazza Navona Roma Italia

I prefer the square is located the Piazza Navona in Rome, because I think that besides being the world's largest square is also the most beautiful, has all the qualities that a great square should have: the main attractions, with the masterpieces of Bernini and Borromini, as the great Bernini fountain, the Fontana del Moro, sculpted by Giacomo della Porta and remodeled by Bernini and the Fountain of Neptune, situated in the north, by Gregorio Zappalà and Antonio Della Bitta.
Piazza Navona is the synthesis and Baroque Rome.

Vincenzo

Piazza Navona is one of the most famous squares of Rome. Its shape is that of an ancient stadium, and was built in monumental style by order of Pope Innocent X Pamphili family.
Like all major Italian cities, was for centuries a large open-air theater where he staged all sorts of dramas and comedies of life.
E 'typical of the Roman Baroque overlay a contemporary place of amusement to the site where stood a monument of antiquity.
A Pope of the seventeenth century, like an emperor in the first century, it became a place of triumph arena. Having been an arena for nearly 2000 years, Piazza Navona is now a pedestrian crowded at all hours of day and night.
The name "Navona" is a corruption of the medieval and later Latin greek "agon," that athletic competition, which also explains why the great baroque church that once stood here is called Saint Agnes in Agony. Leaving the square are the remains of the original stadium of Domitian, protected by glass (Piazza di Tor Blood, 16). It may, with the opportunity to tell the difference between today's street level and the Roman era.

Originally, they used the arena filled with water and real stage naval battles. The tradition has continued to flood the square until the last century.
Today, during the Christmas season Piazza Navona is transformed into a bustling market, where stalls offer everything from candy to shooting at everything necessary to the nativity scene, including pastors and palms, and miniature cattle troughs, ponds, mountains, starry skies, and so on.

THE CHURCH

THE FOUNTAIN OF THE FOUR RIVERS