Piazza Navona: how beautiful it is. So beautiful one may even accept to pay an excruciatingly high price for a “granita al limone” and a coffee in one of its many cafés just to dwell in comfort for a few minutes in all its splendor.

Born upon the vestiges of Domitian’s Stadium, of which it still holds the ancient shape, its visual fulcrum is, today, Bernini’s “Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi” (the Four Rivers Fountain”). Commissioned to the architect by Pope Innocent X, it was built between 1648 and 1651, in the very centre of the square.