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Piazza della Repubblica (o Piazza Esedra)

Where Piazza della Repubblica, 100, Roma

Republic Square, known as Esedra Square up at the Rome Olympics in 1960, is located near the Termini Station, in front of the Baths of Diocletian. The old name of the Square, still very common, originates from the large exedra of the Roman baths, the perimeter of which is traced by the semicircular colonnade of the Square: the arcades were built precisely in memory of the ancient buildings that stood there. The porticoed buildings are a nineteenth-century work by Gaetano Koch. On the Square facing the Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and Martyrs, converted from a wing of the Roman imperial baths. At the center, there is the Fountain of the Naiads, a work of Mario Rutelli (great-grandfather of the former mayor of Rome Francesco Rutelli) of 1901. The naiads represented are the Nymph of the Lakes, recognizable from the swan, the River Nymph, lying on a monster, the Nymph of the Oceans, riding on a horse, and the Nymph of Underground Waters, resting on a dragon; the center is the group of Glaucus (1912), a symbol of man's dominion over the forces of nature.

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