The Aqua Virgo was one of the eleven Roman aqueducts that supplied the city of ancient Rome.It was completed in 19 BC by Marcus Agrippa, during the reign of the emperor Augustus and was built mainly to supply the contemporaneous Baths of Agrippa in the Campus Martius.The aqueduct was called Virgo because a young girl led thirsty soldiers to a spring used as a source for the aqueduct , and it was capable of supplying 100,160 m (131,000 cu yd) of water per day.
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Baths of Agrippa in the context of Pigna (rione of Rome)
Pigna (Italian: [ˈpiɲɲa]) is the 9th rione of Rome, Italy, identified by the initials R. IX, and belongs to the Municipio I. The name means "pine cone" in Italian, and the symbol of the rione is the colossal bronze pine cone standing in the middle of the homonymous fountain. The fountain, which was initially located in the Baths of Agrippa, now decorates a vast niche in the wall of the Vatican facing the Cortile della Pigna, located in Vatican City.