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Piazza Navona, Rome in Italy Royalty Free Stock Photo

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Rome, Navona square Piazza Navona church of St Agnese and fountain of the four rivers by Bernini. Statue depicting the Ganges r Royalty Free Stock Photo

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The Ganges statue, Piazza Navona (Rome, Italy)

Statue of the river-god Danube on the Fountain of the Four Rivers Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. Royalty Free Stock Photo

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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) is a fountain in the Piazza Navona in Rome, Italy. It was designed in 1651 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini for Pope Innocent X whose family palace, the Palazzo Pamphili, faced onto the piazza as did the church of SantAgnese in Agone of which Innocent was the sponsor. The base of the fountain is a basin from the centre of which travertine rocks rise to support four river gods and above them, an ancient Egyptian obelisk surmounted with the Pamphili family emblem of a dove with an olive twig. Collectively, they represent four major rivers of the four continents through which papal authority had spread: the Nile representing Africa, the Danube representing Europe, the Ganges representing Asia, and the RÃÂo de la Plata representing America.