The Baroque church facing onto the Piazza Navona, is the Church of Sant'Agnese in Agone, also called Sant'Agnese in Piazza Navona. It was built in the 17th-century on the site where the Early Christian Saint Agnes was martyred in the ancient Stadium of Domitian.
Piazza Navona is a large, historical square in the centre of Rome, Italy, built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian. The Stadium of Domitian was built in the 1st century AD by the Emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus but fell into ruin after the Fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Piazza Navona is one of the main urban spaces in the historic centre of the city, an extremely beautiful and lively outdoor spaces in the Italy. The square was defined as a public space in the last years of 15th century and follows the form of the stadium. It is a significant example of Baroque Roman architecture with the famous Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi) designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the Obelisk of Domitian, brought in pieces from the Circus of Maxentius and the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone. Piazza Navona has two more fountains: Fontana del Moro with a basin and four Tritons sculpted by Giacomo della Porta (1575) to which, in 1673, Bernini added a statue of a Moor, wrestling with a dolphin at the southern end and the Fountain of Neptune also created by Giacomo della Porta in 1574 at the northern end.
The Fountain of the Four Rivers (Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi), constructed by Bernini in 1651 is located right in the middle of the Piazza Navona. On the top of the fountain one can see the Obelisco Agonale, an obelisk surrounded by four statues representing four major rivers of the four continents Nile for Africa, the Danube for Europe, the Ganges for Asia, and the Río de la Plata for the Americas. The obelisk has at its top a dove with an olive twig, the emblem the Pamphili family whose palace, Palazzo Pamphili, faces onto Piazza Navona as did the church of Sant'Agnese in Agone which was built to be the Chapel annexed to the Pamphili Palace.
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