Fontana della Barcaccia

Tridente, Trevi & the Quirinale


This 1627 fountain of a sinking boat is believed to be by Pietro Bernini, father of the more famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was supposedly modelled on a boat dumped on the piazza when the Tiber flooded in 1598.


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