The traditional Christmas Market in Piazza Navona square in Rome, Italy. Once Piazza Navona was the site of the local market, but in the middle in 1870 this last was moved to Campo deââ¬â¢ Fiori, and that of Piazza Navona became the ultimate Christmas Market in Rome! Built on the site of the Stadium of Domitian in the 1st century AD, piazza Navona follows the form of the open space of the stadium. Piazza Navona was transformed into a highly significant example of Baroque Roman architecture and art during the pontificate of Innocent X, who reigned from 1644 until 1655, and whose family palace, the Palazzo Phillipa, faced the piazza. It features important sculptural and creations: in the center stands the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the church of Sant`Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini, and the Pamphili palace, also by Girolamo Rainaldi, that accommodates the long gallery designed by Borromini and frescoed by Pietro da Cortona. At the southern end is the 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.
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