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Crowning seven hills along the winding banks of the River Tiber, Rome has numerous different personalities: ancient Rome of imperial ruins; Catholic Rome of Vatican City and countless churches; the Renaissance city of Michelangelo and Raphael or the Baroque of Bernini and Borromini; and a modern metropolis of interminable traffic jams, fashionable boutiques and cafés, as well as factories and characterless apartment buildings that make up the post-war eye-sore suburbs.
Romans who delight in Bernini’s scorn for his rivals suggest that the Nile god covers his head rather than look at Borromini’s church of Sant’Agnese in Agone, and the river god of the Americas is poised to catch it in case it collapses.
In fact, the fountain was completed several years before Borromini’s splendid — and structurally impeccable — façade and dome.
Alternatively known as the Palazzo Barberini or the National Gallery of Antique Art (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica) (on the Via delle Quattro Fontane), another architectural battleground for arch-rivals Borromini and Bernini, is worth a visit as much for its splendid Baroque décor as for its collection of 13th–17th-century paintings.