The Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, chosen through a competition, for Pope Innocent X, whose Pamphili family palace faced the piazza. The text dates the design to 1651 and the unveiling to June 12, 1651. It also places construction during the 1646 to 1648 famine, and the infobox gives no dates, so the start of work is not clearly reconciled.
The article calls the style Baroque. It fuses architecture and sculpture into a theatrical, walk-around design in travertine, with a central obelisk that is a Roman copy of an Egyptian one, topped with the Pamphili dove. Four river gods represent the Nile, Danube, Ganges and Río de la Plata.
Innocent X expelled street vendors from the piazza. The fountain inspired the Robba fountain in Ljubljana. The article gives no dimensions, cost or hours.
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