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Piazza Navona
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Key facts
- Location
- Rome, Italy
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- tourist attraction
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Rome
- Movement
- Baroque
- Image
- PiazzaNavonaPanoramicaVerticale.jpg
- Length
- 275
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- architectural style
- baroque architecture
- Commons category
- Piazza Navona (Rome)
- Commons gallery
- Piazza Navona
- native label
- Piazza Navona
- IIIF manifest URL
- gn.biblhertz.it/fotothek/api/iiif/3/werk/obj08045275/manifest
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Encyclopedic overview
Piazza Navona ( pronounced [ˈpjattsa naˈvoːna]) is a public open space in Rome, Italy. It is built on the site of the 1st century AD Stadium of Domitian and follows the form of the open space of the stadium in an elongated oval. The ancient Romans went there to watch the agones ("games"), and hence it was known as "Circus Agonalis" ("competition arena").
In the 17th century it became a showcase for Baroque design, with work by Bernini and Borromini among others. The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi stands in front of the Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Piazza Navona” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.