fountains

The Trevi-fountain obtains its water from the Aqua Virgo (Acqua Vergine), out of the hills east of Rome. Nicola Salvi designed it. The fountains on the Plaza del Popolo (rearranged by the architect Luigi Valadier in the 19th century) are also being "fed" by this aqueduct. One of them: Lion Fountain at the obelisk of farao Ramses II. >>>

On the Piazza di Spagna you will find La Barcaccia ("old barge", 1627), photo up to the left. On the Piazza della Rotonda you will find the Pantheon Fountain (1575, Giacomo della Porta; photo up in the middle) and on the Piazza Mattei Fountain of the Turtles (Fontana delle Tartarughe, 1581, bronze and marmor of Giacomo della Porta), photos to the right. In May 2006 the fountain was fenced in; restauration works were commenced.

The Acqua Felice transports water from the same sources as the Acqua Vergine to among others the Fountain of the Triton (1643, Piazza Barberini; undermost photo to the right), four fountains on the Piazza delle Quattro fontane (1588) and the fountains on the Capitol (1588).

The sources of the Acqua Pia Marcia are to be found at Subiaco.
They "feed" among others the Fountain of the Bees (1644, Piazza Barberini) and the Fountain of the Mask (Via Giulia >>>).
The aqueduct ends at Rutelli's Najadenfountain (Fountain of the Nymphs, 1901, in the middle of the Piazza della Republica (also a metro stop).

The Acqua Paola transports water unfit for drinking from the Lago di Bracciano, northwest of Rome and other sources to among others Pietro Lombardi's Fountain of Amphoras, Carlo Fontana's Fountain of the Shells, in front of the Santa Maria in Trastevere (see below), Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers (La fontana del fiumi on the Piazza Navona; 1648-1651; photo at the end of this page (did you read Dan Brown's Angels & Demons?), Fountain of the Moor (1575) and the Fountain of Neptune (1576).