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2. Nasone - Wikipedia

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   Léon Bonnat, Roman Girl drinking at a Fountain (1875) The city of Rome began installing nasoni in the 1870s to provide a water supply for citizens. The exact year is not known: sources note both 1872 [5] and 1874 [6] as the first time a nasone was installed. The fountains' design went unchanged for decades.

3. Acqua Vergine - Wikipedia

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   Today, as in days of old, the Acqua Vergine is regarded as furnishing some of the purest drinking-water in Rome, reputed for its restorative qualities. Many people to this day can be seen filling containers for drinking and cooking in its splendid fountains, including:

4. List of fountains in Rome - Wikipedia

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   For more than two thousand years fountains have provided drinking water and decorated the piazzas of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of the city, Rome had nine aqueducts which fed 39 monumental fountains and 591 public basins, not counting the water supplied to the Imperial ...

5. Fontana dell'Acqua Paola - Wikipedia

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   Fontana dell'Acqua Paola (detail) The Fontana dell'Acqua Paola was inspired by the popularity of the Fontana dell'Acqua Felice, built in 1585–1588 by Pope Sixtus V.Pope Paul V decided to rebuild and extend the ruined Acqua Traiana aqueduct built by the Emperor Trajan in order to create a source of clean drinking water for the residents of the Janiculum Hill, who were forced to take their ...

6. Fontana dei Libri - Wikipedia

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   The fountain is the last of the ten fountains built by Pietro Lombardi starting in 1925, with the Fontana dei Libri being completed in 1927. He was commissioned by the city's Antiquities and Fine Arts Office to replace the iron nasone that they felt was displeasing to the eye. [ 1 ]

7. Video shows tourist climbing into Rome’s Trevi Fountain to ...

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8. Rome considering limiting tourist access to Trevi Fountain - AOL

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   Rome is considering limiting access to the Trevi Fountain, one of its busiest monuments, ahead of an expected bumper year for tourism in the Eternal City, city council officials say. The Italian ...

9. Fontana di Piazza Colonna - Wikipedia

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   The fountain in the Piazza Colonna is a fountain in Rome, Italy, designed by the architect Giacomo Della Porta and constructed by the Fiesole sculptor Rocco Rossi between 1575 and 1577. [ 1 ] The fountain was one of a group of sixteen fountains built by Della Porta following the reconstruction of the Acqua Vergine aqueduct, a project begun by ...