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  • At Piazza Navona there is activity from morning to night.

    Perfection, Squared Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • But the camera swoops down to reveal the richness within, whether found on Rome's Piazza Navona or Vienna's Ringstrasse.

    Five Best: Simon Jenkins Simon Jenkins 2011

  • He did them for Rome's "French" Church, San Luigi dei Francesi, close to the Piazza Navona, circa 1600.

    A Dramatic Enlightenment Willard Spiegelman 2012

  • Here and in the dense network of alleys west of Piazza Navona, restaurants, wine bars, cocktail spots and nightclubs keep a new dolce vita alive much to the chagrin of residents.

    Finding Fellini Lee Marshall 2011

  • The fountain is, in its very essence, an artificial thing, both liquid—formless—and shaped; but the jets of Bernini's Piazza Navona, glittering in the sun, mediate with an almost incredible beauty and generosity between Nature and Culture.

    The Forever City Robert Hughes 2011

  • But Rome's Piazza Navona certainly gives it a run for its money in any contest for the World's Greatest Public Space.

    Perfection, Squared Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • There had been a brief, lost period when drink took its toll, and with it his job in the ancient bakery in the Campo dei Fiori, just a few minutes 'walk from the small apartment close to the Piazza Navona where they had lived for their entire married life.

    Excerpt: The Garden of Evil by David Hewson 2008

  • At twilight we ate dinner in the Piazza Navona with its three Bernini statues.

    Promise Me Richard Paul Evans 2010

  • The Piazza Navona with its fountains becomes a showplace of thousands of different versions of the crèche, its humble animals and tiny babe, its loving Virgin, doting father, and silk- and jewel-bedecked magi.

    Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

  • In the vast racetrack space of the Piazza Navona, which followed the lines of the Imperial stadium that had preceded it, the stalls occupied almost every last square metre: toys for the children, panini of porchetta carved straight from the warm pig's carcass for the parents, and the

    Excerpt: The Garden of Evil by David Hewson 2008

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