Early Water Supply Solutions in The City Of Rome

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Aqua Anio Vetus, the first raised aqueduct founded in Rome, started out delivering the many people living in the hills with water in 273 BC, though they had relied on natural springs up until then. When aqueducts or springs weren’t available, people living at raised elevations turned to water taken from underground or rainwater, which was made possible by wells and cisterns. From the beginning of the sixteenth century, water was routed to Pincian Hill by using the underground channel of Acqua Vergine. The aqueduct’s channel was made accessible by pozzi, or manholes, that were situated along its length when it was 1st built. The manholes made it easier to maintain the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to pull water from the aqueduct, as we viewed with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he possessed the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he died. Although the cardinal also had a cistern to accumulate rainwater, it didn’t provide a sufficient amount of water. That is when he decided to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran below his residential property.

The Many Good Reasons to Add a Fountain

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The Many Good Reasons to Add a Fountain You can enhance your outdoor area by including a wall fountain or an outdoor garden water feature to your property or gardening project. A myriad of current designers and fountain artisans have found inspiration in the fountains and water features of the past. As such, the effect of integrating one of these to your home decor binds it to past times. Among the many properties of these beautiful garden water features is the water and moisture they discharge into the air which attracts birds and other wild life as well as helps to balance the ecosystem. For example, birds attracted by a fountain or birdbath can be useful because they fend off annoying flying insects.

Wall fountains are a good alternative if your yard is small because they do not need much space as compared to a spouting or cascading fountain. There are two types of fountains to choose from including the freestanding version with a flat back and an attached basin set up against a fence or a wall in your yard, or the wall-mounted, self-contained version which is suspended directly on a wall. Adding a fountain to an existent wall requires that you include a fountain mask as well as a basin at the base to gather the water. Be sure to hire a professional for this type of job since it is better not to do it yourself due to the intricate plumbing and masonry work required.

When and Where Did Water Fountains Originate?

When and Where Did Water Fountains Originate? Himself a highly educated man, Pope Nicholas V headed the Roman Catholic Church from 1397 till 1455 and was responsible for the translation of scores of age-old documents from their original Greek into Latin. In order to make Rome worthy of being the capital of the Christian world, the Pope decided to enhance the beauty of the city. In 1453 the Pope instigated the reconstruction of the Aqua Vergine, an historic Roman aqueduct which had carried clean drinking water into the city from eight miles away. A mostra, a monumental dedicatory fountain constructed by ancient Romans to mark the point of entry of an aqueduct, was a tradition which was revived by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was commissioned by the Pope to build a wall fountain where we now find the Trevi Fountain. Modifications and extensions, included in the repaired aqueduct, eventually supplied the Trevi Fountain and the well-known baroque fountains in the Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Navona with the necessary water supply.