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 | | The church was rebuilt by Bernini, his first architectural project, when he was 26, in 1624-26 for Urban VIII. |
 | | The fountain at the center is the "Barcaccio", designed by Pietro Bernini in the early seventeenth century (or perhaps, as some modern analysts think, by his more famous son, Gian Lorenzo Bernini). |
 | | She was met by the College of Cardinals at the Porto del Popolo, newly redecorated in her honor by Bernini, and there, also, she could read Pope Alexander VII's personal greeting which is still inscribed over the gate: "Felice faustoque ingressui - 1655" -- "May the entrance be happy and propitious". |
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