Original Water Delivery Techniques in The City Of Rome
Original Water Delivery Techniques in The City Of Rome With the building 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 rely exclusively on naturally-occurring spring water for their requirements. During this period, there were only 2 other technologies capable of providing water to high areas, subterranean wells and cisterns, which gathered rainwater. To furnish water to Pincian Hill in the early sixteenth century, they implemented the emerging strategy of redirecting the flow from the Acqua Vergine aqueduct’s underground channel.
Through its initial construction, pozzi (or manholes) were placed at set intervals along the aqueduct’s channel. The manholes made it more straightforward to clean the channel, but it was also achievable to use buckets to extract water from the aqueduct, as we viewed with Cardinal Marcello Crescenzi when he possessed the property from 1543 to 1552, the year he died. Apparently, the rainwater cistern on his property wasn’t sufficient to fulfill his needs. Fortunately, the aqueduct sat under his residence, and he had a shaft opened to give him accessibility.
Bernini’s Early Italian Fountains
Bernini’s Early Italian Fountains Bernini's earliest water fountain, named Barcaccia, is a masterful work of art found at the foot of the Trinita dei Monti in Piaza di Spagna. Roman locals and site seers who enjoy conversation as well as being the company of others still flood this spot. Bernini would undoubtedly have been happy to know that people still flock to what has become one the city's most fashionable areas, that surrounding his amazing water fountain. The master's first fountain of his career was built at around 1630 at the behest of Pope Urbano VIII. A large vessel slowly sinking into the Mediterranean is the fountain's main theme. According to 16th century documents, a great flood of the Tevere covered the entire area in water, an event which was commemorated by the tremendous fountain. Absenting himself from Italy only once in his life for a long-lasting time period, in 1665 Bernini voyaged to France.
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