Fountain of the Four Rivers
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza as did the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monument
- Description: Fountain in Rome designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Also known as: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”, “Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi)”, and “Four Rivers Fountain”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Piazza Navona and Sant’Agnese in Agone.
Piazza Navona
Square
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Piazza Navona 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.
Sant’Agnese in Agone
Church
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Sant'Agnese in Agone is a 17th-century Baroque church in Rome, Italy. It faces onto the Piazza Navona, one of the main urban spaces in the historic centre of the city and the site where the Early Christian Saint Agnes was martyred in the ancient Stadium of Domitian.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Old Rome and Capitoline Hill.
Old Rome
Capitoline Hill
Locality
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The Capitolium or Capitoline Hill, between the Forum and the Campus Martius, is one of the Seven Hills of Rome. The hill was earlier known as Mons Saturnius, dedicated to the god Saturn.
Modern Centre
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The Modern Centre of Rome, home to the Via Veneto, Quirinale, Castro Pretorio, Repubblica, and Trevi neighbourhoods, is the city's hub of activity, especially shopping and nightlife.
Fountain of the Four Rivers
- Category: fountain
- Location: Municipio Roma I, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Fountain of the Four Rivers” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نافورة الأنهار الأربعة”
- Armenian: “Չորս գետերի շատրվան”
- Basque: “Lau Ibaien Iturria”
- Basque: “Lau ibaietako iturria”
- Belarusian: “Фантан Чатырох рэк”
- Breton: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Bulgarian: “Фонтан на Четирите реки”
- Catalan: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Chinese: “四水喷泉”
- Chinese: “四河喷泉”
- Czech: “Fontána čtyř řek”
- Danish: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Dutch: “Vierstromenfontein”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نافورة الانهار الاربعه”
- Estonian: “Nelja jõe purskkaev”
- Finnish: “Neljän joen lähde”
- French: “fontaine des Quatre-Fleuves”
- French: “Fontaine des Quatre-Fleuves”
- Galician: “Fonte dos Catro Ríos”
- Georgian: “კვატრო-ფიუმის შადრევანი”
- German: “Vierströmebrunnen”
- Greek: “Κρήνη των Τεσσάρων Ποταμών”
- Hebrew: “מזרקת ארבעת הנהרות”
- Indonesian: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Italian: “fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Italian: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Japanese: “四大河の噴水”
- Korean: “콰트로 피우미 분수”
- Lithuanian: “Keturių upių fontanas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fireflodsfontenen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Persian: “فواره چهار رودخانه”
- Polish: “Fontanna Czterech Rzek”
- Portuguese: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Russian: “Фонтан Четырёх рек”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Slovak: “Fontána štyroch riek”
- Slovenian: “Vodnjak štirih rek, Bernini”
- Spanish: “Fuente de los Cuatro Rios”
- Spanish: “Fuente de los Cuatro Ríos”
- Swedish: “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Turkish: “fontana dei Quattro Fiumi”
- Turkish: “Quattro Fiumi Çeşmesi”
- Ukrainian: “Фонтан чотирьох рік”
- Ukrainian: “Фонтан чотирьох річок”
- Vietnamese: “Đài phun nước bốn dòng sông”
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Nearby Places
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