Bernini Fountain St Peter's Square Vatican City
by Joan Carroll
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Bernini Fountain St Peter's Square Vatican City
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Joan Carroll
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Photograph - Photography And Digital Art
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There are two fountains in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City. At a casual glance, you might think they are twin fountains but they were designed by different architects and installed nearly a half century apart. This is the Bernini fountain, the ‘newer’ of the two fountains, commissioned in 1667 and installed in 1677. The Egyptian obelisk in the background was erected at the current site in 1586. It was originally erected at Heliopolis, Egypt, by an unknown pharaoh, moved to Alexandria by Emperor Augustus, and moved again to Rome by Caligula in CE 37 to the Circus of Nero where it would preside over Nero's countless brutal games and Christian executions. The Circus of Nero was located mostly in present day Vatican City. So it didn’t have far to move in 1586. Still its relocation was quite an engineering feat and it is the only obelisk in Rome that has not toppled since ancient Roman times.
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Joan carroll, rome, Italy, saint, peter, water, flowing, cascade, roma, old, water, italian, historical, roman, landmark, tourist
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