Around this famous fountain is total chaos, loads and loads of people jam packed, it is actually a struggle to get close to the fountain and you are best hanging around the sides to get a better view.
There are interesting little shops mixed in with the usual tourist souvenier shops which all house the same thing, trashy t-shirts, little rome snow domes and mini collusems and leaning tower of pisa's.
Piazza Navona is a really nice area, this place is full of artists but I really do think that they are commercially done, I could be wrong but I did not seen one artist painting on site, if they are sitting there all day in the wonderful area why are they not painting? They all seems to be selling very similar works with the same style and they had their paints in a tool box but not one of them was using any paints. I think they had been created en masse and selling on to unsuspecting tourists.
It was a nice forum mixed with artists and street performers lined with trendy cafe's and restaurants. Many of the buskers are dressed up to look like a statue and stay still until somebody puts money in their hat. One day a guitarist was playing wonderful music using a large amp and it just added an amazing ambience to the whole italian experience, sitting in the sun drinking a cappuchino in a nearby cafe watching the world go by.
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