piazza Barberini
Piazza Barberini is a large piazza in the centro storico or city center of Rome, Italy and situated on the Quirinal Hill. It was created in the 16th century but many of the surrounding buildings have subsequently been rebuilt.Photo: Geobia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Square
- Description: square in Rome, Italy
- Also known as: “Piazza Barberini”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica and Fountain of the Bees.
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica
Museum
Photo: Mallowtek, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica is an art museum in Rome, Italy. It is the principal national collection of older paintings in Rome – mostly from before 1800; it does not hold any antiquities. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica is situated 110 metres southeast of piazza Barberini.
Fountain of the Bees
Fountain
Photo: MM, Public domain.
Fontana delle Api is a fountain located in the Piazza Barberini in Rome where the Via Veneto enters the piazza. It was sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and completed in April 1644.
Triton Fountain
Photo: Architas, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fontana del Tritone is a seventeenth-century fountain in Rome, by the Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Commissioned by his patron, Pope Urban VIII, the fountain is located in the Piazza Barberini, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's family.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains) and Modern Centre.
Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains)
Locality
Photo: R-bitzer, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Quattro Fontane is an ensemble of four Late Renaissance fountains located at the intersection of Via delle Quattro Fontane and Via del Quirinale in Rome.
Modern Centre
Photo: Goldmund100, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Viminal Hill
Locality
piazza Barberini
- Category: locality
- Location: Municipio Roma I, Rome, Metropolitan Rome, Lazio, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
41.9038° or 41° 54′ 14″ northLongitude
12.48865° or 12° 29′ 19″ eastElevation
55 metres (180 feet)Open location code
8FHJWF3Q+GFOpenStreetMap ID
way 1371637706OpenStreetMap feature
place=square
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“piazza Barberini” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Պիացցա Բարբերինի”
- Catalan: “Plaça Barberini”
- Chinese: “巴贝里尼广场”
- Czech: “Piazza Barberini”
- Dutch: “piazza Barberini”
- Dutch: “Piazza Barberini”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ميدان باربيرينى”
- Finnish: “Piazza Barberini”
- French: “piazza Barberini”
- French: “Piazza Barberini”
- Galician: “Piazza Barberini”
- German: “Piazza Barberini”
- Greek: “Πιάτσα Μπαρμπερίνι”
- Hebrew: “פיאצה ברבריני”
- Italian: “piazza Barberini”
- Italian: “Piazza Barberini”
- Japanese: “バルベリーニ広場”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Piazza Barberini”
- Norwegian: “Piazza Barberini”
- Polish: “Piazza Barberini”
- Portuguese: “Piazza Barberini”
- Russian: “Пьяцца Барберини”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Piazza Barberini”
- Slovenian: “piazza Barberini”
- Slovenian: “trg Barberini”
- Spanish: “Plaza Barberini”
- Swedish: “Piazza Barberini”
- Thai: “จัตุรัสบาร์เบรินี”
- Turkish: “Barberini Meydanı”
- Turkish: “piazza Barberini”
- Turkish: “Piazza Barberini”
- Ukrainian: “Площа Барберіні”
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