In a city of popular fountains, Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona is a highlight. This extravagant masterpiece was inherent 1651 in the focal point of one of Rome's most exquisite squares, and it continues to delight centuries later with its elaborate sculptures and starring part in mainstream society. Piazza Navona's colourful highlight, Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi is a lavish, showy work. Completed in 1651, it features a tightening Egyptian obelisk and four muscular personifications of the rivers Ganges, Nile, Danube and Plate, representing the 4 continents of the notable world.