The still-functioning entrance to the inspection duct of the Acqua Vergine, at Via del Nazareno.
The Acqua Vergine is one of several Roman aqueducts that deliver pure drinking water to Rome. Its name derives from its predecessor Aqua Virgo, which was constructed by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa in 19 BC. Its terminal castellum is located at the Baths of Agrippa, and it served the vicinity of Campus Martius through its various conduits. In an effort to restore fresh water to Rome during the Renaissance, Pope Nicholas V, in 1453, renovated the main channels of the Aqua Virgo[1] and added numerous secondary conduits under Campo Marzio. The original terminus, called a mostra, which means showpiece, was the stately, dignified wall fountain designed by Leon Battista Alberti[1][2] in Piazza dei Crociferi. Due to several additions and modifications to the end-most points of the conduits during the years that followed, during the Renaissance and Baroque periods, the Acqua Vergine culminated in several magnificent mostre - the Trevi Fountain[1] and the fountains of Piazza del Popolo.
^ abcGross, Hanns (1990). Rome in the Age of Enlightenment: the Post-Tridentine syndrome and the ancien regime. New York: Cambridge University Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-521-37211-9.
^Tavernor, Robert (1998). On Alberti and the art of building. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 15. ISBN 0-300-07615-0.
The AcquaVergine is one of several Roman aqueducts that deliver pure drinking water to Rome. Its name derives from its predecessor Aqua Virgo, which...
Pincio and the Quirinale and within Campo Marzio and consecrated it AcquaVergine. This also led the water to the Trevi Fountain and the fountains of...
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restoration of a ruined first century Roman aqueduct, the AcquaVergine, by Pope Gregory XIII. The AcquaVergine had been one of the first Roman aqueducts, opened...
worthy capital of the Christian world. In 1453, he began to rebuild the AcquaVergine, the ruined Roman aqueduct which had brought clean drinking water to...
the city of Rome listed in chronological order of their construction. AcquaVergine Antica built in 1453 source: springs in Salone, east of Rome length:...
the unassorted fronts of buildings beyond. The aqueduct carrying the AcquaVergine Nuovo was completed in the 1820s, and its water provided the opportunity...
decoration. The elder Bernini had been the pope's architect for the AcquaVergine, since 1623. According to a legend, Pope Urban VIII had the fountain...
reconstructed under Pope Nicholas V and consecrated in 1453 as the AcquaVergine. In 1570, Giacomo della Porta was commissioned under Pope Gregory XIII...
worthy capital of the Christian world. In 1453 he began to rebuild the AcquaVergine, the ruined Roman aqueduct which had brought clean drinking water to...
fountains built by Della Porta following the reconstruction of the AcquaVergine aqueduct, a project begun by Pope Pius IV in 1561 and finished by Pope...
He is particularly remembered for his role in the restoration of the AcquaVergine, an ancient Roman aqueduct. Its malfunction was forcing Roman citizens...
temples, streets, squares, fortifications, bridges and restored the AcquaVergine as far as the Trevi..." In addition to restoring the aqueduct that provided...
Italian). Katherine Rinne, "Fluid Precision: Giacomo della Porta and the AcquaVergine fountains of Rome", in Landscapes of Memory and Experience, ed. Jan...
employed by Pope Nicholas V for the restoration of the Roman aqueduct of AcquaVergine, which debouched into a simple basin designed by Alberti, which was...
its sides into a small basin. The source of the water comes from the AcquaVergine, an aqueduct from 19 BCE. Bernini built this fountain to be slightly...
dell'Acqua Vergine, was designed and sculpted by Vasari and Ammannati: it depicts river gods and caryatids. The fountain's source, the AcquaVergine, also...
Giacomo della Porta in the 1570s. Its function was to hold water from the AcquaVergine aqueduct. Ludovico Rossi was the original stone-carver who created the...
square with the same name. Built in 1572 after the re-activation of the AcquaVergine aqueduct, it was designed by Giacomo della Porta, and was originally...
Stamperia Caetani al Colle Esquilino, 1805 The Market, the lake of AcquaVergine, and the Palazzo Pamfili in the Circus Agonale, known vulgarly as Piazza...
Southward, Settecamini borders with Zona Lunghezza (Z. X) and with Zona AcquaVergine (Z. IX): the border is outlined by the river Aniene, up to the Grande...
The ready supply of water to the building came from the re-opened the AcquaVergine aqueduct, which had been restored in 1453. The building was most notably...
Aniene. To the east, Tor Cervara also shares a short border with Zona AcquaVergine (Z. IX), which is outlined by the stretch of the GRA between the river...
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