Fountain of Neptune
The Fountain of Neptune in Florence, Italy, is situated in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio. The fountain was commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici in 1559 to celebrate the marriage of Francesco de' Medici I to Grand Duchess Joanna of Austria.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Monument
- Description: fountain in Florence
- Also known as: “Fontana del Nettuno” and “Fountain of Neptune, Florence”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Uffizi Gallery and Piazza della Signoria.
Uffizi Gallery
Museum
Photo: Arek N., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of the largest and best-known in the world and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance. Uffizi Gallery is situated 130 metres south of Fountain of Neptune.
Piazza della Signoria
Square
Photo: Giuseppe Zocchi, Public domain.
Piazza della Signoria is a W-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Central Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.
Loggia dei Lanzi
Photo: Sailko, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on the south corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery, and diagonally to the east the Palazzo della Signoria, the political center of the city.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Statuto and Isolotto.
Fountain of Neptune
- Category: fountain
- Location: Florence, Florence, Tuscany, Central Italy, Italy, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Turkish—“Fountain of Neptune” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Фантан Нептуна”
- Catalan: “Font de Neptú, Florència, Itàlia”
- Chinese: “海神喷泉”
- Croatian: “Neptunova fontana (Firenca)”
- Croatian: “Neptunova fontana”
- Dutch: “Neptunusfontein (Florence)”
- Dutch: “Neptunusfontein”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نافورة نبتون”
- French: “fontaine de Neptune”
- French: “Fontaine de Neptune”
- German: “Neptunbrunnen”
- Hungarian: “Neptun-kút”
- Italian: “Biancone”
- Italian: “Fontana del Biancone”
- Italian: “Fontana del Nettuno (Florence)”
- Italian: “Fontana del Nettuno”
- Italian: “Fontana di Nettuno”
- Italian: “Fontana di Piazza”
- Italian: “il Biancone”
- Italian: “Il biancone”
- Korean: “넵투누스 분수”
- Russian: “Нептун (фонтан во Флоренции)”
- Russian: “Нептун”
- Russian: “Фонтан Нептун во Флоренции”
- Slovenian: “Neptunov vodnjak, Firence”
- Spanish: “Fuente de Neptuno”
- Turkish: “Neptün Çeşmesi”
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