Fontana della Barcaccia

The boat has an identical bow and stern in an oval basin, and gunwales low enough that it reads as sinking. Two large coats of arms of Urban VIII, with three bees, are set on the outside of bow and stern, with water issuing from mock gunports at their sides. Roma Capitale connects the name with the boats used on the Tiber at the port of Ripetta, and its Sovrintendenza also records the naumachia tradition and the Tiber floods that carried boats up to the foot of Trinità dei Monti as rival explanations.