Example sentences for: navona

How can you use “navona” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The trendy café crowd on Piazza Navona draw natural inspiration from Bernini’s grandiose 17th-century fountain.

  • The same is true of Rome’s grand piazzas — Navona, del Popolo, and di Spagna; Siena’s unique Campo; and Florence’s elegant Piazza della Signoria.

  • December: Rome: Christmas food and toy market on Piazza Navona; Assisi and Naples: nativity scenes in streets

  • The phrase in agone came to be corrupted to Navona , by way of intermediate forms such as Nagone and Navone . Until well into the present century, the official, if little used, name of the piazza was Circo Agonale .

  • The name of one of the most favored places of modern Rome, Piazza Navona , is a disguised form of a word for the ancient structure whose site it occupies, a stadium ( circus in Latin) built by the emperor Domitian.


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