A Wall Fountain to Fit Your Design

A Wall Fountain to Fit Your Design A small patio or a courtyard is a great spot to put your wall fountain when you need peace and quiet. Wall Fountain Fit Design 48502038266462152.jpg

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You can have one custom-built to suit your requirements even if you have a small amount of space. Whether it is stand alone or fitted, you will require a spout, a water bowl, internal piping, and a pump. There are any number of different types available on the market including traditional, contemporary, classical, or Asian.

Normally quite large, freestanding wall fountains, also referred to as floor fountains, have their basins on the ground.

On the other hand, a water feature attached to a wall can be incorporated onto an existing wall or fit into a new wall. Integrating this type of water feature into your landscape brings a cohesiveness to the look you want to attain rather than making it seem as if the fountain was merely added later.

The First Modern Wall Fountains

The First Modern Wall Fountains The translation of hundreds of classical Greek texts into Latin was commissioned by the scholarly Pope Nicholas V who led the Church in Rome from 1397 until 1455. Embellishing Rome and making it the worthy capital of the Christian world was at the heart of his objectives. First Modern Wall Fountains 6904452293955099837.jpg

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Reconstruction of the Acqua Vergine, a desolate Roman aqueduct which had carried fresh drinking water into the city from eight miles away, began in 1453 at the bidding of the Pope. Building a mostra, a grandiose celebratory fountain built by ancient Romans to memorialize the entry point of an aqueduct, was a custom revived by Nicholas V. The architect Leon Battista Alberti was commissioned by the Pope to put up a wall fountain where we now find the Trevi Fountain. The Trevi Fountain as well as the well-known baroque fountains found in the Piazza del Popolo and the Piazza Navona were eventually supplied with water from the modified aqueduct he had rebuilt.

Rome’s Ingenious Water Delivery Systems

Rome’s Ingenious Water Delivery Systems With the manufacturing of the 1st elevated aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, folks who lived on the city’s hillsides no longer had to rely solely on naturally-occurring spring water for their requirements. Outside of these aqueducts and springs, wells and rainwater-collecting cisterns were the only technological innovations available at the time to supply water to areas of high elevation. Starting in the sixteenth century, a brand new method was introduced, using Acqua Vergine’s subterranean segments to supply water to Pincian Hill. As originally constructed, the aqueduct was provided along the length of its channel with pozzi (manholes) constructed at regular intervals. The manholes made it less demanding to clean the channel, but it was also possible to use buckets to pull water from the aqueduct, as we saw with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he owned the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he passed away. Reportedly, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t enough to fulfill his needs. That is when he made the decision to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran under his residence.