Piazza Barberini

A lively crossroads connecting the Quirinal and Pincian hills, centred on Bernini's Triton Fountain (1643). The square is named after the powerful Barberini family of Pope Urban VIII, whose nearby Palazzo Barberini now houses the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica. From here, Via Veneto climbs uphill to the grand hotels and cafés that defined Rome's La Dolce Vita era in the late 1950s and early '60s, when Federico Fellini and the paparazzi made it a global byword for glamour.