Fountains in Rome - Decorative Fountains

Decorative Fountains

These fountains were linked to the restored acqueducts, decorated the piazzi, or squares, of Rome, and provided drinking water to the population around the squares.

  • the Fountain in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere (1499-1659)

  • Fontana delle Api (Fountains of the Bees) (1644)

  • Fontana di Piazza d'Aracoeli, (1589)

  • Fontana dell'Acqua Acetosa

  • Fontana della Barcaccia, (1627)

  • Fountain in Campo de' Fiori, known as La Terrina (the soup bowl)

  • Fontana di Piazza Colonna (1577 - 19th century print)

  • Fontana dei Dioscuri (1818)

  • Fontana di Piazza Farnese, in front of the Palazzo Farnese (16th century)

  • La Fontana del Moro in Piazza Navona (1575)

  • Fountain of the Piazza dei Monti, by Giacomo Della Porta, (1589) illustration from Fontane di Roma by Giovanni Batista Falda, about 1670

  • Fountain of Neptune, Rome, Piazza Navona (Fountain 1574, Neptune added 1878)

  • Fontana delle Naiadi on Piazza della Repubblica (1888)

  • Fontana del Nettuno, Piazza del Popolo (1822–23)

  • Fontana del Pantheon (1575)

  • Fontana della Pigna (1st century AD)

  • Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, Piazza Navona (1651)

  • Fountains of St. Peter's Square by Carlo Maderno (1614) and Bernini (1677)

  • Fontana delle Tartarughe, (The Turtle Fountain) Piazza Mattei (1588)

  • Fontana del Tritone, Piazza Barberini (1642–43)

  • Fontana delle Anfore (Fountain of the Amphorae), in Piazza dell'Emporio, near the Ponte Sublicio, by Pietro Lombardi (1927)
  • Fontana di Piazza d’Aracoeli in Piazza d'Aracoeli, at the base of the Capitoline Hill (1589)
  • Fontana dell'Acqua Acetosa
  • Fontana delle Api (Fountain of the Bees) in the Piazza Barberini, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1644).
  • Fontana della Barcaccia (Fountain of the Old Boat), Piazza di Spagna (1627)
  • Fontana di Piazza Colonna in the Piazza Colonna, (completed 1577)
  • Fontana dei Dioscuri in front of the resident of the President of Italy in the Piazza del Quirinale (1818)
  • Fountain of Valle Giulia
  • Fontana di Piazza Farnese, one of two matching fountains in front of the Palazzo Farnese, in Piazza Farnese (16th century)
  • La Fontana del Moro, Piazza Navona, fountain by Giacomo Della Porta, (1575), statue of Moor by Bernini added in 1653)
  • Fontana delle Naiadi, (Fountain of the Naiades), Piazza della Repubblica, (1870–1901)
  • Nasone
  • Fontana del Nettuno, Piazza del Popolo
  • Fontana del Nettuno, Piazza Navona, (1574)
  • Fontana di Piazza Nicosia, originally in Piazza del Popolo,(1572), moved to Piazza Nicosia in 1823.
  • Fontana del Pantheon, by Giacomo Della Porta (1575, with Egyptian obelisk added in 1711)
  • Fontana della Pigna (Pine Cone Fountain), in the Cortile della Pigna of Vatican City. (Sculpture from 1st century, moved to present site in 1608).
  • Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers), Piazza Navona (1648–1651)
  • Fontana di Piazza dei Quiriti in Piazza dei Quiriti, (1927–28).
  • Fontana del Tritone, (Triton Fountain) Piazza Barberini (1642–43)
  • Fontana delle Tartarughe, (The Turtle Fountain), Piazza Mattei (1585–1588)
  • Fountains in the garden of Villa Medici - several garden fountains

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