In the middle of the square, characterized
by the façades of the XVIIIcentury's palaces
which surround it, stands the elegant marble fountain
decorated with dolphins and maskarons made in the time
of Clement XI, who had it surmounted with an obelisk
in 1711.
The fountain was projected by Della
Porta.
Two curiousities are noteworthies:
a plaque on the wall of the edifice right in front of
the Pantheon which reminds us when the square , in the
XVIII century, was cleared from taverns and brothels
by the papal authority; another plaque, on the façade
of the palace that houses today the hotel "Del
Sole", reminds that the poet Torquato Tasso overnighted
here.
The English movie director Peter Greenaway
chose the square as set for many sequences of his movie
" The Belly of an Architect ". |
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