Early morning in the Piazza Navona

Well, it was about 9.00 a.m. - and that's early for Piazza Navona, Rome.

They hadn't set up the stalls or the restaurants (or the gelateria) at that point - but it was perfect for a coffee and tourist-free photos.

This beautiful Piazza is famous for the Bernini fountain, the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (on the far right, under the obelisk) and for the sparklingly white church by Borromini. This is Sant'Agnese in Agone, believed to be founded on the site of the brothel where, in AD 304, the young St Agnes was exposed naked to force her to renounce her faith.

One story is that the name of the square, Piazza Navona, is a corruption of "in Agone"........

Ganges, from the Bernini Fountain of the Four Rivers