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Behind the fountain is the luxury hotel, Anantara Palazzo Naiadi. In the two arches on the left are twin cinemas that date back to the early 1900's.

Piazza della Republica is a circular piazza in Rome, at the summit of the Viminal Hill, next to the Termini station. On it is to be found Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri. The porticos around the piazza, built in 1887–98 by Gaetano Koch, were in memory of the ancient buildings on the same sites. The fountain in this square was originally the fountain of the Acqua Pia (connected to the aqua Marcia aqueduct), commissioned this site by Pope Pius IX in 1870. Completed in 1888, it originally showed four plaster lions designed by Alessandro Guerrieri. These were then replaced in 1901 with sculptures of Naiads by Mario Rutelli from Palermo, the great-grandfather of the politician and former mayor of Rome, Francesco Rutelli

The naiads represented are the Nymph of the Lakes (recognisable by the swan she holds), the Nymph of the Rivers (stretched out on a monster of the rivers), the Nymph of the Oceans (riding a horse symbolising of the sea), and the Nymph of the Underground Waters (leaning over a mysterious dragon). In the centre is Rutelli's Glauco group (1911/12), symbolizing the dominion of the man over natural force and replacing a previous sculpture. [Wikipedia]
Date Taken on 6 October 2022, 20:28
Source Piazza della Repubblica
Author Paul VanDerWerf from Brunswick, Maine, USA
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Camera location41° 54′ 09.57″ N, 12° 29′ 46.34″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Me in ME at https://flickr.com/photos/12357841@N02/53554245548. It was reviewed on 1 March 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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