Known in Roman times as the Circus Agonalis, the site currently named the Piazza Navona contained the Stadium of Domitian, built in the first century AD, and where Romans of the day came to watch games. This is the Fontana del Moro (the Moor Fountain), which features a Moor (possibly originally symbolizing Neptune) wrestling with a dolphin which is caught between his legs, and surrounded by four Tritons. The original fountain, designed by Giacomo della Porta in 1575, consisted of the basin, the dolphin and the four Tritons. The Moor was actually added to the statue nearly a hundred years later.
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