
The “Lake of Piazza Navona”, when the heart of Rome was flooded every summer
Water games in Piazza Navona (Rome). Credit: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons Very few know that a Piazza Navona existed a real artificial lake: No warship, however, nor gladiators in action, only a festive crowd of popular and nobles, gathered to enjoy an unusual show in the heart of Rome. Was Pope Innocenzo Xin the seventeenth century, ...








