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It occupies the area of the ancient circus of Flora, where the floral games were held to celebrate, in the month of May, the blossoming of spring. Placed in a hollow and inhabited already in the first centuries of the empire, it was enriched with villas and gardens during the sixteenth century and, with the Felice road (now Via Sistina), it took on the character of an urban space.
Between the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first of the twentieth century, I acquired a modern aspect, thanks to the opening of Via Veneto and Via Regina Elena, now Via Barberini, becoming one of the nerve centers of the city.
The square takes its name from the Palazzo Barberini located there. In the center stands the beautiful Triton Fountain, the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1632-37) commissioned by Pope Urban VIII Barberini.
Represented in the center of a huge shell, with the erect torso and scaly legs of a sea monster, the Triton stands imposing, with his head bent back in an effort to blow into the large twisted shell from which the water that irrigates the whole work. Expression of the new Baroque conception of space, in the fountain the sculptural part includes and completely absorbs the same architectural structure: the shell on which the Triton rests constitutes, in fact, the upper basin of the fountain, and the baluster at the base is replaced by four dolphins with intertwined tails, between which are placed the papal coats of arms with bees, heraldic symbol of the Barberini family.
Bernini himself was also responsible for the design of a fountain for the use of travelers, originally located on the square, on the corner with Via Sistina, known as the Fountain of the Bees (today at the beginning of Via Veneto).
