Fountain of Neptune

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The Fountain of Neptune () is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, Piazza del Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, ItalyThe urbanistic history and quasi-political character of these interrelated civic spaces and structures expressing conflicting connotations of papal and communal-republican instruments of government are discussed in Naomi Miller, Renaissance Bologna: A Study in Architectural Form and Content (University of Kansas) 1989. The fountain is a model example of Mannerist taste of the Italian courtly elite in the mid-sixteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

type: monument
date from: 1566

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