Fountain of the Tritons Fountain of the Tritons The Fountain of the Tritons (Italian: "Fontana dei Tritoni") is a fountain in Rome (Italy), Piazza Bocca della Verità, in front of the basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin. This fountain should be distinguished from the similarly named nearby Triton Fountain ("Fontana del Tritone") by Bernini, in the Piazza Barberini, with only a single Triton. The building, starting from 1610, of the last Roman aqueduct, the "Acqua Paola", didn't move to the background the two aqueducts built just a few years before (the "Aqua Virgo" in 1570 and the "Acqua Felice" in 1587), which gave the
Fountain from the conch shell of the triton. The Piazza Navona became a grand theater of water, with three fountains, built in a line on the site of the Stadium of Domitian. The fountains at either end are by Giacomo della Porta; the Neptune fountain to the north, (1572) shows the God of the Sea spearing an octopus, surrounded by tritons, sea horses and mermaids. At the southern end is Il Moro, possibly also a figure of Neptune riding a fish in a conch shell. In the center is the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi, (The Fountain of the Four Rivers) (1648–51),