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This small wall fountain (probably from the 1570s) is fashioned as a water-seller whose barrel forever spouts fresh water.
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Eleven huge, worn columns still stand from a Temple to Hadrian built in AD 145 by his son.
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The oddly shaped “harpsichord of Rome”, begun by Vignola in 1560, was finished with a Tiber terrace by Flaminio Ponzio.
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Bernini’s 1670 palace has housed Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies since 1871. The south façade is original; the north is Art Nouveau.
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The square’s obelisk was once part of the Augustus’s giant sundial, which used to be flanked by the Ara Pacis.
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A lovely square, home to two cafés competing for Rome’s “best cappuccino ” title, as well as an 1196 bell tower, and an excellent view of Sant’Ivo (see A Morning Stroll around the Pantheon).
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This oversized, well-worn sandalled marble foot belonged to an unidentified ancient statue.
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Founded in the 5th century, and overhauled in 1090–1118. Guido Reni did the Crucifixion altarpiece, Bernini the second chapel on the right.
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Pietro da Cortona designed the façade and vestibule (1660); Bernini the high altar (1639–43). Its 6th-century frescoes are now in the Crypta Balbi.
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The church is an elliptical Baroque gem. The 1735 façade by Giuseppe Sardi is Rome’s best Rococo monument.
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