The Genesis Of Garden Fountains

The Genesis Of Garden Fountains The incredible construction of a fountain allows it to provide clean water or shoot water high into air for dramatic effect and it can also serve as an excellent design feature to enhance your home.

Pure functionality was the original role of fountains. Cities, towns and villages made use of nearby aqueducts or springs to supply them with potable water as well as water where they could bathe or wash. Used until the 19th century, in order for fountains to flow or shoot up into the air, their source of water such as reservoirs or aqueducts, had to be higher than the water fountain in order to benefit from gravity. Genesis Garden Fountains 53375066955.jpg Fountains were not only used as a water source for drinking water, but also to decorate homes and celebrate the designer who created it. Roman fountains often depicted imagery of animals or heroes made of metal or stone masks. Throughout the Middle Ages, Muslim and Moorish garden planners incorporated fountains to create smaller variations of the gardens of paradise. The fountains seen in the Gardens of Versailles were intended to show the power over nature held by King Louis XIV of France. 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

Urban fountains made at the end of the nineteenth served only as decorative and celebratory ornaments since indoor plumbing provided the essential drinking water. Amazing water effects and recycled water were made possible by switching the force of gravity with mechanical pumps.

Beautifying city parks, honoring people or events and entertaining, are some of the uses of modern-day fountains.

The Impact of the Norman Conquest on Anglo Saxon Landscaping

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The Impact of the Norman Conquest on Anglo Saxon Landscaping The Anglo-Saxon way of life was significantly changed by the appearance of the Normans in the later eleventh century. Engineering and horticulture were attributes that the Normans excelled in, trumping that of the Anglo-Saxons at the time of the occupation. But before centering on home-life or having the occasion to consider domestic architecture or decoration, the Normans had to subjugate an entire population. Castles were more standard constructions and often erected on blustery hills, where their people devoted both time and space to practicing offense and defense, while monasteries were major stone buildings, mostly situated in the widest, most fertile hollows. The sterile fortresses did not provide for the quiet avocation of gardening. The finest specimen of the early Anglo-Norman style of architecture existent presently is Berkeley Castle. The keep is said to date from William the Conqueror's time period. As a method of deterring attackers from tunneling underneath the walls, an immense terrace surrounds the building. One of these terraces, a charming bowling green, is covered grass and flanked by an aged yew hedge cut into the form of crude battlements.

Rome’s Ingenious Water Transport Solutions

Rome’s Ingenious Water Transport Solutions With the manufacturing of the first elevated aqueduct in Rome, the Aqua Anio Vetus in 273 BC, people who lived on the city’s hills no longer had to depend solely on naturally-occurring spring water for their demands. Throughout this time period, there were only 2 other systems capable of offering water to high areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which gathered rainwater. In the early sixteenth century, the city began to utilize the water that ran below ground through Acqua Vergine to provide drinking water to Pincian Hill. Pozzi, or manholes, were constructed at regular intervals along the aqueduct’s channel. During the some nine years he owned the residential property, from 1543 to 1552, Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi used these manholes to take water from the network in containers, though they were initially established for the function of maintaining and maintaining the aqueduct. The cistern he had constructed to collect rainwater wasn’t adequate to meet his water requirements. That is when he made a decision to create an access point to the aqueduct that ran beneath his property.