Rome’s First Water Transport Systems
Rome’s First Water Transport Systems Aqua Anio Vetus, the first raised aqueduct assembled in Rome, began delivering the many people living in the hills with water in 273 BC, although they had counted on natural springs up until then. If citizens residing at higher elevations did not have accessibility to springs or the aqueduct, they’d have to count on the other existing technologies of the day, cisterns that accumulated rainwater from the sky and subterranean wells that received the water from under ground. To deliver water to Pincian Hill in the early sixteenth century, they employed the brand-new tactic of redirecting the flow from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground channel. All through the length of the aqueduct’s passage were pozzi, or manholes, that gave access. Even though they were originally manufactured to make it possible to support the aqueduct, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi started using the manholes to get water from the channel, opening when he purchased the property in 1543. Though the cardinal also had a cistern to accumulate rainwater, it couldn't supply sufficient water. That is when he made the decision to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran below his residence.
Where did Garden Water Fountains Come From?
Where did Garden Water Fountains Come From? The dramatic or decorative effect of a fountain is just one of the purposes it fulfills, as well as supplying drinking water and adding a decorative touch to your property.Originally, fountains only served a practical purpose. People in cities, towns and villages received their drinking water, as well as water to bathe and wash, from aqueducts or springs in the vicinity. Up to the late 19th century, water fountains had to be near an aqueduct or reservoir and more elevated than the fountain so that gravity could make the water flow downwards or jet high into the air.
Fountains were not only used as a water source for drinking water, but also to adorn homes and celebrate the designer who created it. Animals or heroes made of bronze or stone masks were often times used by Romans to beautify their fountains. During the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden designers included fountains in their designs to re-create the gardens of paradise. Fountains played a significant role in the Gardens of Versailles, all part of French King Louis XIV’s desire to exercise his power over nature. To mark the entryway of the restored Roman aqueducts, the Popes of the 17th and 18th centuries commissioned the building of baroque style fountains in the spot where the aqueducts entered the city of Rome
The end of the nineteenth century saw the rise in usage of indoor plumbing to provide drinking water, so urban fountains were relegated to purely decorative elements. Gravity was replaced by mechanical pumps in order to permit fountains to bring in clean water and allow for beautiful water displays.
Embellishing city parks, honoring people or events and entertaining, are some of the purposes of modern-day fountains.