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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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