Ninfeo di Alessandro (Trofei di Mario)
Historic site · Esquilino, Italy
A Severan monumental fountain standing in the garden of piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, which worked both as a display fountain and as a distribution tank, a castellum aquae. Its plan is trapezoidal; it.wikipedia gives it as 25 metres wide, about 20 metres high originally, and 4,000 cubic metres. The Sovrintendenza Capitolina manages it, and the same article gives it as visitable on request, on 060608.
History
The two marble trophies that gave the ruin its medieval name, the Trofei di Mario, were moved in 1590 by Sixtus V to the balustrade at the top of the Cordonata on the Campidoglio, where they still are.
Visit
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 00185 Roma RM
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