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 PIAZZA
NAVONA:
Fountain of the four Rivers with Egyptian obelisk, in
the middle of Piazza NavonaPiazza Navona is a square
in Rome, Italy. The Piazza follows the plan of an ancient
Roman circus, the 1st Century Stadium of Domitian, where
the Romans came to watch the agones ("games"): today's
name stems from the corruption of the latter in in agone,
then nagone and navone, which actually means "big ship"
in Italian.
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