Aqueducts: The Answer to Rome's Water Problems
Aqueducts: The Answer to Rome's Water Problems Rome’s 1st raised aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in 273 BC; before that, people living at higher elevations had to depend on natural streams for their water. If residents residing at higher elevations did not have accessibility to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to count on the remaining existing solutions of the time, cisterns that collected rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that received the water from under ground. Beginning in the sixteenth century, a newer method was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean sections to generate water to Pincian Hill. Pozzi, or manholes, were made at standard intervals along the aqueduct’s channel. Even though they were initially manufactured to make it possible to service the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi started using the manholes to collect water from the channel, commencing when he purchased the property in 1543. It seems that, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t sufficient to meet his needs. Through an orifice to the aqueduct that ran under his property, he was set to meet his water wants.
The Magificent Early Wonders by Bernini
The Magificent Early Wonders by Bernini One can find Bernini's very first masterpiece, the Barcaccia water fountain, at the base of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. To this day, this spot is filled with Roman locals and travelers alike who enjoy debate and each other's company.
Today, the city streets around Bernini's water fountain are a trendy place where people go to meet, something which the artist would have been pleased to learn. Dating back to around 1630, Pope Urbano VIII mandated what was to be the very first water fountain of the master's career. The fountain’s central theme is based on a massive ship slowly sinking into the Mediterranean. The great flooding of the Tevere that blanketed the whole region with water in the 16th was memorialized by this momentous fountain as recorded by reports dating back to this period. Absenting himself from Italy only once in his life for a prolonged period of time, in 1665 Bernini traveled to France.
A water fountain is an architectural piece that pours water into a basin or jets it high into the air in order to supply drinking water, as well as for decorative purposes....
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Prior to 273, when the 1st elevated aqueduct, Aqua Anio Vetus, was built in Rome, citizens who lived on hills had to go further down to collect their water from natural sources....
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