Triton Fountain

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 , near the entrance to the that Bernini helped to design and construct for the Barberini, Urban's family.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Body of water
  • Description: fountain in Rome
  • Also known as: “Fontana del Tritone” and “Fontana del Tritone, Rome”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include piazza Barberini and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica.

Square
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is a large piazza in the centro storico or city center of , and situated on the . It was created in the 16th century but many of the surrounding buildings have subsequently been rebuilt.

Museum
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The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica is an art museum in , . It is the principal national collection of older paintings in Rome – mostly from before 1800; it does not hold any antiquities. is situated 120 metres east of Triton Fountain.

Fountain
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Fontana delle Api is a fountain located in the in where the Via Veneto enters the piazza. It was sculpted by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and completed in April 1644.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Quattro Fontane (Four Fountains) and Modern Centre.

Locality
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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 .

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The of , home to the Via Veneto, Quirinale, Castro Pretorio, Repubblica, and Trevi neighbourhoods, is the city's hub of activity, especially shopping and nightlife.

Locality
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The is the smallest of the famous Seven Hills of Rome. A finger-shape cusp pointing toward central Rome between the to the northwest and the to the southeast, it is home to the and the .

Triton Fountain

Latitude
41.90366° or 41° 54′ 13″ north
Longitude
12.48848° or 12° 29′ 19″ east
Open location code
8FHJWF3Q+F9
Open­Street­Map ID
way 662063745
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­fountain
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Wiki­data ID
Q267971
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Triton Fountain” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “نافورة تريتون”
  • Armenian: “Տրիտոնի շատրվան”
  • Basque: “Tritonaren iturria”
  • Belarusian: “Фантан Трытона”
  • Catalan: “Font del Tritó”
  • Chinese: “特里同喷泉”
  • Chinese: “特里同噴泉”
  • Czech: “Tritónova fontána”
  • Dutch: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نافورة تريتون”
  • Finnish: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • French: “fontaine du Triton”
  • French: “Fontaine du Triton”
  • Galician: “Fonte do Tritón”
  • Georgian: “ტრიტონის შადრევანი”
  • German: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • German: “Fontana Tritone”
  • German: “Tritonbrunnen (Rom)”
  • German: “Tritonenbrunnen”
  • Greek: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Greek: “Κρήνη του Τρίτωνα”
  • Greek: “Φοντάνα ντελ Τριτόνε”
  • Hebrew: “מזרקת טריטון”
  • Italian: “fontana del Tritone”
  • Italian: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Japanese: “トリトーネの噴水”
  • Japanese: “トリトンの噴水”
  • Latin: “Fontana Tritonis”
  • Latin: “Fontarium Tritonium”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Norwegian: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Polish: “Fontana del Tritone w Rzymie”
  • Polish: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Portuguese: “Fonte de Tritão”
  • Portuguese: “Fonte do Tritão”
  • Russian: “Фонтан Тритона”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Slovak: “Tritónova fontána”
  • Spanish: “Fuente del Triton”
  • Spanish: “Fuente del Tritón”
  • Swedish: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Swedish: “Tritonfontänen”
  • Turkish: “Fontana del Tritone”
  • Turkish: “Tritone Çeşmesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Фонтан Тритона”

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