Thursday Postcard Hunt: Fountains

“Fountains”” is this week’s theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt.

Postcards from Italy

The Trevi Fountain is an 18th-century fountain in the Trevi district in Rome, Italy, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Giuseppe Pannini in 1762 and several others.
The Fountain of Neptune is a monumental civic fountain located in the eponymous square, Piazza del Nettuno, next to Piazza Maggiore, in Bologna, Italy The fountain is a model example of Mannerist taste of the Italian courtly elite in the mid-sixteenth century. 
The Praetorian Fountain is a monumental fountain located in Piazza Pretoria in the historic center of Palermo, region of Sicily, Italy. The fountain dominates the piazza on the west flank of the church of Santa Caterina.
By 1581, the fountain had been installed in this square, sporting sixteen nude statues of nymphs, humans, mermaids and satyrs. The fountain has not always been admired. Since the 18th-century, due to the prolific nudity, some called this the Fontana della Vergogna (Fountain of Shame).

Postcard from Vatican

One of the two fountains in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, created by Carlo Maderno (1612–1614) and Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1667–1677) to add ornament to the square in front of St. Peter’s Basilica.

Postcard from Denmark

The Dragon Fountain is a fountain located in the City Hall Square in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was designed by Joakim Skovgaard in collaboration with Thorvald Bindesbøll and features a bull in combat with a dragon.

8 comments

  1. Amazing fountains, of course, especially Trevi. Which I missed as age 13, letting my parents go to Italy (and Morocco) without me. I was worried I’d be unable to start high school if I missed too much school, so I opted to stay boarding at my school in Spain. I didn’t learn anything there, so it wouldn’t have mattered, and now I wish I’d gone to Italy and Morocco! 13 year olds can be so stubborn!

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  2. The Italians love their fountains there are so many, some great ones here The dragon fountain made me think of Copenhagen’s stock exchange dragon spire that was destroyed by fire recently. There must be some connection/legend of dragons and the city.

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