Piazza Navona  Member Rating 4 out of 5 by artslover on May 22,
2007  Piazza Navona is located in the historic center of Rome,
near the Pantheon. It is a great place to view some art and
architecture, have a drink or a bite to eat, check out the
shops, and generally people-watch.  The piazza follows the plan
of an ancient Roman circus, essentially a race track. In this
case, like the first-century Stadium of Domitian, where the
Romans came to watch the agones ("games"). The name, Navona,
stems from the corruption of the word agones into agone, then
nagone and then, navona, which actually means "big ship" in
Italian.  We went about noon hour, so stopped at a bar or
enoteca with tables outside directly in front of Bernini's
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi. The fountain, unfortunately, is
undergoing restoration, so had scaffolding and boards all around
it and you could only see parts and not the whole. It is
intended to represent the four great rivers of the world.  Where
we sat was an excellent spot to view the Borro