"ME of the Tartu Fountain of Tartu The commission of the Fountain of the Neptune, 1556, concludes the decade of the protic activity of Giovanni Angelo Montorsoll 1507c. - Florence, by Andrea Fet- follower of thelangelo since early مك recci rowing day. In fact, from 1547, I built the Fountain of Orion, in Parza the Church of 5. destroyed by the earthquake 1783, it inlaid floor and the score of the Apostle side in Cathedral, the Lanterna 5. Ranieri, falcata, Gaginese traitor ملامtando creating, moreover, emancipating local plastic production. The fountain, "among the plabellas of the Renaissance was originally allocated in the harbour area prospective the Mercantile Loggia, the proximity of today's PalazzoLittorio and turned towards the town (fig. 1), in 1934 the square was moved in front of the Government Palace and oriented towards the sea. The Maurolico, the author of the explanatory distichs of the myths of the Strait along the edge of the tank, can also be read - of the vice-presidents and jurors promoting commission and the sculptor, I am sure inspired by a complex iconography, tied local mythology, of Carrara marble structure, on which sets The large octago- tank with the four batteries, on the oblique sides, which receive water from pairs of masks. In the center on the high pedestal, adorned by the eagle with the shields the Neptune, predominant sea monsters and Cariddi and four horsemen. The Fountain has suffered several because of the calamities that the city has suffered since 1848. The statues of the God of the sea and Scyila (fig. 2) are copies of tocentes executed respectively by G. Zappala (1886) and from L. Subba (1858) in place of the original sculptures damaged by the Bourbon Royal Cannonage, today kept at the Museum اد naleلnale. In fact, the Montorsolian Neptune was first admitted for over thirty years in the Church of 5. Maria Alemanna (Fig. 3), then, after 1908, restored in the construction sites of the Cathedral, before the definitive location of the museum. The source miraculously saved by the earthquake was widely damaged by the bombing of the last century, and compensated by sculptor A. Bonfiglio, commissioned by the Office of the Genius In 1957, works were started by the Municipality to restore water supply. A complex further active intervention is conducted between 1996 and 1999 by the Superintendence of The Decade Feustain - 이 4 is merks the end Auti, a papil of from / salt sley in Rome Since '47. he sealed for - the · 1783, levirs the inland the floor conferred and Change on the af St. h the Senate, the - Iry the of the TM ares petition from today'sLactories is the port The area is everlooking the - Eampoen 1934 it to the Are the of Greenet and differently ence- Mauralica, of explaining the Straits slow to read of the asso fhr names - The Vice and of cre and the ary"

仲田露武

"The fiuntain is ok. The plumbing has been updated in a very non-ascetic way. Frankly, it's not worth the 10 min walk unless you just want some steps in for the day. If you bliw the picture up, you'll notice the toilet float for automatic refilling, I assume. The sculpture is fine, the plumbing very unclassy"

Chris H

"Very beautiful and well-groomed, it stands opposite the Strait of Messina. Scylla and Charybdis frame it, depicting two women with monstrous bodies.
Poseidon gazes at the sea and calms its waters.
The surrounding greenery could be more carefully tended, but the result is very beautiful."

John D