Prato della Valle
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Last updated on November 11, 2026Physical description
An enormous elliptical square with a green island at its centre, ringed by a moat-like canal crossed by four bridges. A double row of stone statues — seventy-eight of them — stands along both banks of the water all the way round, so the canal reads as a continuous balustrade of figures enclosing the lawn inside.