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In this article we want to make a perfect walk the fountains of Rome: the richest city in the world for water and fountains. So since antiquity, when well aqueducts 11 ensured the city thousands and thousands of litres of water a day, which went to feed the many fountains and the greatest spa. The looting of the Goths, with the consequent cutting of water, put an end to this wealth, and only at the end of the sixteenth century popes adequately faced the problem of water supply. Since then Rome was decorated with dozens of monumental fountains to celebrate the Pope's munificence, often accompanied by tanks and troughs public conceived utilitarian purposes. And yet today, while admire these masterpieces, it refreshes the excellent drinking water flowing from the typical fountains nicely calls "nasoni" because of the unusual shape of the curved pipe.

The scenic Fountain of Naiads, one of the most beautiful fountains of Rome, is the work of sculptor Mario Rutelli, who created it in 1901 to beautify Piazza della Repubblica, originally called Piazza Esedra. The old name derives from the fact that the square was built, the end of the line following the broad curve of the majestic exedra Baths of Diocletian, recently refurbished and reopened to the public. Between the two buildings shaped semicircular colonnades opens Via Nazionale, a major artery road and vibrant commercial hub. At n.194 is the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, home to major exhibitions.

The four bronze nymphs placed around the bathtub of the Fountain of Naiads, were the subject of fierce controversy that led prilagodile even a palisade to block the view of female figures, considered too sensual for the way in which embraced the sea monsters. The palisade was removed for the will of the people but the criticism not arrested when the author realized that the core group, representing three Triton, a dolphin and an octopus, it was promptly renamed "fried mixed. The group was transferred to Piazza Vittorio and replaced with the figure of Glauco struggling with a triton.

Often the implementation of water and fountains was dictated rather than by the desire to meet the needs of the population, by the desire to satisfy private interests of the popes. This is the case of the Fountain of Moses in Piazza San Bernardo, which is the "show", the party terminal of Felice, so called by the name of Pope Sixtus V, Felice Peretti, which restored the ancient aqueduct Alexandria. This was done mainly to serve the immense villa,

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