Rome, Narrated Walking Tour | Bernini: from the Pantheon to Piazza Navona

Navona is Rome’s most famous piazza, a cobbled oval dominated by the Egyptian obelisk, cascading water and gleaming marble gods of the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi.

Occupying an ancient Roman stadium, in the Renaissance it hosted Carnival jousting and races. Pope Innocent X gave it a facelift in the 17th century but astrologers continued to tell fortunes, tooth-pullers to set up stalls and puppeteers to perform here.

Today tourists and locals mill about at all hours.

Fontana di Nettuno
This fountain is a 19th-century work showing seagod Neptune struggling with a sea monster.

Obelisk
In the centre of the Baroque Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, this Egyptian obelisk came from the ancient temple of Isis nearby.

Fontana del Moro
Bernini sculpted the Moor wrestling with a dolphin at the centre of this fountain.

Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
Bernini’s fountain (1651) symbolizes how Pope Innocent X (the dove) triumphed over paganism (the obelisk) and brought peace (an olive branch) to the world (the four rivers).

Sant’Agnese in Agone
The church was built over the rooms in which St Agnes was imprisoned. Borromini’s startling concave façade (1657) was part of Pope Innocent X’s revamp of the piazza.

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