Right in the centre of Piazza della Rotonda - in front of the Pantheon - there is a fountain with an obelisk erected here. It is the Egyptian obelisk "Obelisco Macuteo".
In 1575, Giacomo della Porta was commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII (1502 - 1585) to design this fountain, the sculptural realisation of which was entrusted to Leonardo Sormani.
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