Piazza Navona
A long oval square that keeps the exact shape of the Stadium of Domitian, built here in the 1st century AD for athletic games. Three fountains run down its length, with Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers at the centre, and the old running track is now lined with cafes and Baroque church fronts.
- Where
- Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 41.8987, 12.4732
Get the Piazza Navona stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Piazza Navona. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Lazio volume with your photos and a note.
Near Piazza Navona
Pantheon 0.3 km
A Roman temple first built under Augustus and rebuilt by Hadrian, now a church and still in use almost two thousand years on. Its unreinforced concrete dome, open to the sky through a single round oculus, lets in a moving disc of sunlight and the occasional shower of rain.
Campo de' Fiori 0.4 km
A rectangular square south of Piazza Navona whose name, the field of flowers, dates from the Middle Ages when it was still a meadow. A produce and flower market fills it in the mornings, under the hooded statue of the philosopher Giordano Bruno.
Largo di Torre Argentina 0.5 km
A sunken square in the middle of modern traffic, holding four temples from the Roman Republic and part of the remains of Pompey's Theatre. It lies in the ancient Campus Martius, and a colony of cats now lives among the columns.
Castel Sant'Angelo 0.7 km
A great drum of stone on the Tiber, built by Hadrian as a tomb for himself and his family and later turned by the popes into a fortress. It was once the tallest building in Rome, and today it is a museum whose terrace, under the bronze Archangel Michael, looks straight down the river to St Peter's.
Trevi Fountain 0.9 km
The largest Baroque fountain in the world, 26 metres high and nearly 50 wide, designed by Nicola Salvi and finished in 1762. Ocean rides a shell chariot out of the palace wall above the basin, and tradition says a coin tossed over your shoulder means you will return to Rome.
Ara Pacis 0.9 km
A marble altar to the Roman peace, commissioned by the Senate in 13 BC to honour Augustus on his return from Spain and Gaul. It lay buried under four metres of river silt for centuries and was reassembled in 1938 beside the Tiber, where it now stands inside its own museum.
Altare della Patria 0.9 km
A vast white monument to Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of united Italy, built between 1885 and 1935 to a design by Giuseppe Sacconi. It rises in tiers of columns and statues above Piazza Venezia, and Romans have long given it nicknames like the wedding cake and the typewriter.
Capitoline Museums 1.0 km
Rome's own civic museums, set in two palaces that face each other across Michelangelo's Piazza del Campidoglio on the Capitoline Hill. Among the ancient pieces inside are the bronze she-wolf and the original equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius.
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Questions
Where is Piazza Navona?
Piazza Navona is in Rome, Lazio, Italy. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Pantheon (0.3 km), Campo de' Fiori (0.4 km), Largo di Torre Argentina (0.5 km).
How do I get the Piazza Navona stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Piazza Navona and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Lazio volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Piazza Navona before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Lazio volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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