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Aqua Traiana
The Aqua Traiana (later renamed the Acqua Paola) was a 1st Century acqueduct built by Emperor Trajan from 98-117 AD. It channelled water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometers (25 mi) north-west of Rome, to Rome in ancient Roman times but had fallen...
Acqua Vergine
Acqua Vergine is one of the several aqueducts that serve the city of Rome, in Italy, with pure drinking-water. The name derives from the name of its predecessor, Aqua Virgo, which was constructed by Marcus Agrippa in 19 BC, terminating at its...
Fontana del Babuino
Il Babbuino (Romanesco: Il Babbuino; Italian: Il Babuino, "The Baboon") is one of the talking statues of Rome, Italy. The fountain is situated beside the Chiesa di S. Atanasio dei Greci, in via del Babuino.
The statue is an ancient depiction of a...
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Fontana della Barcaccia
Fontana della Barcaccia (English: "Fountain of the Old Boat") is a Baroque fresh-water fountain in Rome, Italy in the Piazza di Spagna, just below the Spanish Steps. It is so named because it is in the shape of a half-sunken ship with water...
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Fontana dei Dioscuri
The Fontana dei Dioscuri is the fountain set opposite the Palazzo del Quirinale, the official residence of the President of the Italian Republic in the Piazza del Quirinale.
The original fountain, which no longer exists, commissioned by Pope Sixtus...
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Fontana della Piazza Colonna
The fountain in the Piazza Colonna, Rome, was commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII in the late 1500s, designed and sculpted by Giacomo Della Porta with the assistance of Rocco De Rossi and was completed by 1577.
In 1830 it was restored, and had two...
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Fontana delle Anfore
The 'Fontana delle Anfore' (English: 'Fountain of the Amphorae'), located in the Piazza dell'Emporio, near the Ponte Sublicio, in Rome, Italy. It was completed in 1927, by Pietro Lombardi after he won a competition the municipality of Rome set in...
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Fountain of Valle Giulia
The Fountain of Valle Giulia is a fountain in the Valle Giulia area of Rome. It was immortalised in Fontane di Roma.
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Piazza della Repubblica
Piazza della Repubblica is a semi-circular piazza in Rome, next to the Termini station. On it is to be found Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri. It is served by the Repubblica - Teatro dell'Opera Metro station.
The ancient name of the piazza,...
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Fontana della Piazza Nicosia
The Fontana della Piazza Nicosia at the Piazza Nicosia in Rome, Italy, is the first of the modern fountains of Rome.
Built in 1572 after the re-activation of the Acqua Vergine aqueduct, it was designed by Giacomo della Porta, and was originally...
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Fontana del Pantheon
The Fontana del Pantheon (English: Fountain of the Pantheon) was commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII and is located in the Piazza della Rotonda, Rome, in front of the Roman Pantheon. It was designed by Giacomo Della Porta in 1575 and sculpted out of...
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Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi
The Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or "Fountain of the Four Rivers" is a fountain in Rome, Italy, located in the Piazza Navona. It is a masterpiece of Gianlorenzo Bernini's, and emblematic of the dynamic and dramatic effects sought by high Baroque...
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Fontana della Piazza dei Quiriti
The fountain in the Piazza dei Quiriti (Sometimes called: 'La Fontana delle Cariati') in Rome was constructed in 1927-1928, designed by the sculptor Attilio Selva after he was inspired by the 17th century designs.
When it was first constructed, it...
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Fontana di Trevi
The Trevi Fountain (Italian: Fontana di Trevi) is a fountain in the Trevi rione in Rome, Italy. Standing 25.9 meters (85 feet) high and 19.8 meters (65 feet) wide, it is the largest Baroque fountain in the city.
The fountain at the junction of three...
Triton Fountain
Bernini's baroque Triton Fountain (Italian Fontana del Tritone) is located in Piazza Barberini, Rome, near the entrance to the Palazzo Barberini (now housing the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica), which Bernini helped redesign for his patron Maffeo...
Fountains in Rome
For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 A.D., according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the...
Fountain of Neptune
The Fountain of Neptune is a fountain in Florence, Italy, situated on the Piazza della Signoria (Signoria square), in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.
This work by Bartolomeo Ammannati (1563–1565) and some assistants, such as Giambologna, was...
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Fountain of Neptune, Bologna
The Fountain of Neptune (Fontana di Nettuno) of Bologna, Italy, is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, Piazza Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore. Its bronze figure of Neptune, extending his reach in a lordly gesture of...
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Aguas Ferreas Fountain
The Aguas Ferreas Fountain (Portuguese: Fonte das Águas Férreas) is a is a fountain located in Fraião, city of Braga, Portugal.
It was built in 1773, is one of the first works from Carlos Amarante.
Arethuse
The Arethuse is a fountain on the island of Ortygia in Syracuse, Sicily.
The fountain is mentioned in a number of poems, for instance John Milton’s Lycidas and Alexander Pope’s The Dunciad.
Barmaleï fountain
The Barmaley was a fountain in the city of Stalingrad, installed in front of the Museum of Defense of Tsaritsyn. Its official name was Children's Khorovod The statue represented a circle of six children, dancing around a crocodile. It was made...
The Bucket Fountain
The Bucket Fountain is an iconic kinetic sculpture of Wellington, New Zealand. It can be found in Cuba Mall, which is part of Cuba Street. It consists of a series of "buckets" that fill with water until they tip, spilling their load into the buckets...
Burnside Fountain
The Burnside Fountain, affectionately called Turtle Boy, is a bronze statue of a boy riding a hawksbill sea turtle by sculptor Charles Y. Harvey that stands on a pedestal by architect Henry Bacon (who later designed the Lincoln Memorial in...
Da Ponte fountain
The Da Ponte fountain (Slovene: Da Pontejev vodnjak) is a fountain in the city of Koper, in south-western Slovenia. It is located on Prešeren Square, formerly known as Da Ponte Square.
A subaquatic aqueduct connected the island of Koper to the...
Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain
The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fountain is a memorial to Diana, Princess of Wales. It was designed to express Diana's spirit and love of children. It is located in the southwest corner of Hyde Park in London, just south of the Serpentine Lake...
Flora Fountain
Flora Fountain, at the Hutatma Chowk (Martyr's Square), is an ornamentally and exquisitely sculpted architectural heritage monument located at the southern end of the historic Dadabhai Naoroji Road, called the Mile Long Road , at the Fort business...
Port Fountain
The Port Fountain or Karachi Port Trust Fountain is located next to the northern rock of a series of islands known as the Oyster Rocks, off the Karachi Harbour. The fountain is the world's second tallest, and rises to height of 620 feet (190 m) when...
Fountain of Ahmed III
The Fountain of Sultan Ahmed III (Turkish: III. Ahmet Çeşmesi) is a fountain in a Turkish rococo structure located in the great square in front of the Imperial Gate of Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. It was built under Ottoman sultan Ahmed III...
Fountain of Qasim Pasha
The Fountain of Qasim Pasha (Arabic: سبيل قاسم باشا) also known as the Fountain of the Bitter Orange (al-Naranj Sabil) is an ablution and drinking fountain located in the western esplanade of the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem. It is...
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Fountain of Samson, Kiev
The Fountain of Samson or Felitsiyal (Ukrainian: Фонтан Самсон, Феліціял, translit.: Fontan Samson, Felitsiial) is a Ukrainian Baroque fountain in the Podil raion of Kiev. It was constructed in the 18th Century, later demolished by the Bolsheviks...
Fountain of Wealth
The Fountain of Wealth (Chinese: 财富之泉) is listed by the Guinness Book of Records in 1998 as the largest fountain in the world. It is located in one of Singapore's largest shopping malls, Suntec City.
During certain periods of the day, the fountain...
Fountain of the Rosello
The Fountain of the Rosello is the most famous fountain of Sassari and Sardinia for which it is a symbol. It is located at the end of the Rosello valley next to the ancient town of the city.
It was built among 1603 and 1606 by Genoese craftsmen on...
Gefion fountain
The Gefion Fountain (Danish: Gefionspringvandet) is a large fountain on the harbour front in Copenhagen, Denmark. It features a large-scale group of animal figures being driven by the legendary Norse goddess, Gefjun. It is located in Langelinie Park...
Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen
The Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen ("Fountain of Justice") is a 16th-century fountain in the Gerechtigkeitsgasse in the Old City of Bern, Switzerland. It is the only Bernese fountain to retain all original design elements, and is listed as a cultural...
German Fountain
The German Fountain (Turkish: Alman Çeşmesi) is a gazebo styled fountain in the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square), Istanbul, Turkey and across from the Mausoleum of Sultan Ahmed I. It was constructed to commemorate the second...
Jeanneke Pis
Jeanneke Pis is a modern fountain and statue in Brussels, which forms a counterpoint in gender terms to the city's trademark Manneken Pis at the Grand Place (Grote Markt).
It was made by Denis-Adrien Debouvrie in 1985 and erected in 1987 and endowed...
Kindlifresserbrunnen
The Kindlifresserbrunnen (German for Child Eater Fountain) is a fountain at the Kornhausplatz (Granary Place) in Bern, Switzerland. It is one of the Old City of Bern's fountains from the 16th century.
It was created in 1545/46 by Hans Gieng in place...
Manneken Pis
Manneken Pis (help·info) (Dutch for little man urinating), also known in French as the petit Julien, is a famous Brussels landmark. It is a small bronze fountain sculpture depicting a naked little boy urinating into the fountain's basin. It was...
Mercury fountain
A mercury fountain is a fountain constructed for use with mercury rather than water.
The most noted example is a modern sculpture designed by the American artist Alexander Calder and commissioned by the Spanish Republican government for the 1937...
Neptunbrunnen
The Neptune Fountain in Berlin was built in 1891 and was designed by Reinhold Begas. The Greek god Poseidon (Neptune) is in the center. The four women around him represent the four main rivers of Germany: Elbe, Rhine, Vistula, and Oder.
The fountain...
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Roland Fountain
The Roland Fountain (sometimes referred to as Maximilian Fountain; Slovak: Rolandova fontána or Maximiliánova fontána) is the most famous fountain in Bratislava, Slovakia, as well as one of the city's important landmarks. It is located in the Old...
Sebilj
The Sebilj (an Arabic word meaning kiosk-shaped public fountain) or as visitors frequently call it “the pigeon square”. The Sebilj is a pseudo-Moorish style wooden fountain in the centre of Baščaršija square in Sarajevo built by Mehmed-pasha...
Shrob ou shouf fountain
The Shrob ou shouf fountain (also spelled Chrob ou chouf) is situated in the medina of Marrakech not far from the Ben Youssef Medrassa. The fountain has been built during the reign of the Saadian sultan Ahmad al-Mansur (1578-1603). Its crown is made...
Triton Fountain
The Triton Fountain is the central feature in City Gate Square, Valletta, capital of the Mediterranean island of Malta. This square also serves as the island's central bus terminus.
The Triton Fountain was sculpted by local sculptor Vincent Apap in...
Tsikoulas
Tsikoulas is the name of a famous water fountain - dating from 1910 - on the Greek island of Limnos, in the village Kontias. Close by, another famous water fountain is found - dating from 1914 - which is known as "Kali Vrisi", meaning Good Fountain....
Wallace fountain
Wallace fountains are public drinking fountains designed by Charles-Auguste Lebourg that appear in the form of small cast-iron sculptures scattered throughout the city of Paris, France, mainly along the most-frequented sidewalks. They are named...
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World Cup Fountain
The World Cup Fountain was built to commemorate the 2002 FIFA World Cup co-hosted by South Korea and Japan. The World Cup Fountain is located in the Han-gang River in Seoul, South Korea, between the World Cup Stadium and Seonyudo Park. The fountain...
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El Alamein Fountain
The El Alamein Fountain is a fountain and war memorial in the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is located in the Kings Cross area, at the entrance to the Fitzroy Gardens on the corner of Darlingurst Road and Macleay Street. The El...
Lotta's Fountain
Lotta's fountain was dedicated in 1875 at the intersection of Market Street where Geary and Kearny Streets connect in downtown San Francisco, California.
The cast pillar with a drinking fountain at its base was donated to San Francisco by the...
Bagley Memorial Fountain
The Bagley Memorial Fountain is a historic fountain in Detroit. It has recently been moved from its long-time location in Campus Martius Park to a new location in just down the street in Cadillac Square Park. The fountain was listed on the National...
Bethesda Fountain
Bethesda Terrace overlooks The Lake in New York City's Central Park. It is on two levels, united by two grand staircases and a lesser one that passes under Terrace Drive to provide passage southward to the Elkan Naumburg bandshell and The Mall, of...
Buckingham Fountain
Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago landmark in Grant Park which was dedicated in 1927.
The fountain is considered to be Chicago's front door, since it resides from Grant Park, the city's front yard. The fountain, located at Columbus Drive and Congress...
Crown Fountain
Crown Fountain is an interactive work of public art and video sculpture featured in Chicago's Millennium Park, which is located in the Loop community area. Designed by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa, it opened in July 2004. The fountain is composed of...
Electric Fountain
The Electric Fountain is a water fountain located in Beverly Hills, California on the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire Boulevards. The fountain is illuminated by a changing pattern of colored lights. The sculpture and tiles that make up the...
Engineering Fountain
The Purdue Mall Water Sculpture, often referred to as the Engineering Fountain, is a water sculpture and fountain located at the main campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. The sculpture is positioned in the heart of campus on the...
Fort Worth Water Gardens
The Fort Worth Water Gardens, built in 1974, is located on the south end of downtown Fort Worth between Houston and Commerce Streets next to the Fort Worth Convention Center. The 4.3 acre (1.7 hectare) Water Gardens were designed by noted New York...
Fountain of Eternal Life
The Fountain of Eternal Life, also known as the War Memorial Fountain and Peace Arising from the Flames of War, is a statue and fountain in Cleveland, Ohio designed by Cleveland Institute of Art graduate Marshall Fredericks and dedicated on May 30,...
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Fountain of Nations
The Fountain of Nations is a musical fountain at Epcot in the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. It was designed by Mark Fuller and his team from WET. The fountain contains about 200,000 gallons of water, has about 300 nozzles...
