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no longer exists, that the pope had built starting in 1585 and occupied the whole area of the station Termini to the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. The figure of Moses in to make water flow from the rock obvious reference to the pope who restored the aqueduct, was so criticized for a lack of grace and proportion.

Going into Via Barberini you come to the main square, characterized by beautiful Fontana del Tritone, a masterpiece by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, who created around 1642. The composition, which adorned the square outside the palace of the noble family Barberini, represents a triton supported by four dolphins while blowing into a shell, proclaiming to the world the glory of the family. Until the eighteenth century in front of the fountain took place a macabre ritual: the corpses were exposed while an unknown auctioneer invited to recognize the bodies.

Bees, heraldic symbol of Barberini, in addition to adorn the base of Fontana del Tritone, are the protagonists of a small but delicious composition placed at between Piazza Barberini and Via Veneto, the Fountain of Bees. The three insects, placed on the hinge of a shell dual valve open, were sculpted by Bernini in 1644, to celebrate the twenty-second anniversary of the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII. The fact that we have achieved the completion of the first seems to have been a bad omen for the pontiff who unfortunately died eight days before the anniversary.

From here begins Via Veneto, twinned with the Fifth Avenue in New York, a symbol of the Dolce Vita of the'50s and'60s. The elegant way, celebrated by Federico Fellini, is frequented by politicians, intellectuals, people of spectacle and journalists, often immortalized by the inevitable "paparazzi".

The entire neighborhood was built between the late 800's and the beginning of the'900, when the principles decided Boncompagni Ludovisi, an action of real estate speculation, lottizzare the ground relevant to their splendid villa built in the seventeenth century. The villa remains the only Casino dell'Aurora (Via Boncompagni), decorated by Guercino and Caravaggio, unfortunately hardly accessible.

From Via del Tritone take Via della Stamperia that leads to Fontana di Trevi, surely the most famous and spectacular of Rome, made even more famous by the bathroom night Anita Ekberg in Federico Fellini film La Dolce Vita. The fountain is the terminal of Virgin, built by Agrippa, General Augustus in 19 BC In Rome to bring water from sources Salone, 19 km from Rome.

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