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Examples
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At Piazza Navona there is activity from morning to night.
Perfection, Squared Willard Spiegelman 2011
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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At twilight we ate dinner in the Piazza Navona with its three Bernini statues.
Promise Me Richard Paul Evans 2010
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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
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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
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