Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi by Gypsystravels
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers)Located her in Piazza Navona is the famous Fountain of the Four Rivers by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The rivers represented in the fountain are the Danube, the Ganges, the Nile and the Rio de la Plata. They are arranged on a steep rocky reef from which a Roman obelisk taken from the Cirucus of Maxentius rises up into the air. Rumor has it that sculptures on the fountain symbolize the rivalry between Bernini and Borromini. Innocent the X first commissioned Borromini, but Bernini obtained the comminssion by corrupting Donna Olimpia, the Pope's sister-in-law.