This is the previously mentioned Bernini adorned fountain that sits in a small piazza on the edge of the Jewish ghetto. He added the turtles which he alledgedly saw as an apt metaphor for the Jews. Tough, determined, and carrying their homes on their backs.
I also included a shot of the "sunken boat" at the base of the Spanish Steps. The story goes that after the water receded following one of the Tiber's more extreme floodings, a small boat was "beached" in the Piazza di Spagna. (Years later and a continent away, John Hartford wrote a novel based on a similar event involving a cornfield and a paddlewheeler on, I think, the Ohio River. No pictures of that. Don't even ask.)
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