Climate activists in Rome turn waters of landmark Baroque fountain black
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Climate activists in Italy turned a Baroque-style fountain at the foot of Romeโs Spanish Steps black on Saturday, in a protest they said evoked an โend of the worldโ scenario.
Three activists from the anti-climate change organisation Last Generation poured a vegetable-based carbon liquid into the landmark 17th-century fountain, known to Romans as La Barcaccia, before being escorted away by police.
The fountain, in the shape of a boat, was designed by famed Italian sculptor Pietro Bernini.
Popular tradition has it that he was inspired by the discovery in 1598 of a boat in the square after it was washed inland by a flooding Tiber river, Last Generation said.
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