Fontana della Barcaccia

This 1627 fountain of a sinking boat is believed to be by Pietro Bernini, father of the more famous Gian Lorenzo Bernini. It was supposedly modeled on a boat dumped on the piazza when the Tiber flooded in 1598.

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