![]() ![]() ![]() A splash pad or spray pool allows city residents to enter, get wet and cool off in summer. įountains are used today to decorate city parks and squares to honor individuals or events for recreation and for entertainment. The highest such fountain in the world is King Fahd's Fountain in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which spouts water 260 metres (850 ft) above the Red Sea. The Jet d'Eau in Lake Geneva, built in 1951, shoots water 140 metres (460 ft) in the air. Mechanical pumps replaced gravity and allowed fountains to recycle water and to force it high into the air. īy the end of the 19th century, as indoor plumbing became the main source of drinking water, urban fountains became purely decorative. The baroque decorative fountains of Rome in the 17th and 18th centuries marked the arrival point of restored Roman aqueducts and glorified the Popes who built them. King Louis XIV of France used fountains in the Gardens of Versailles to illustrate his power over nature. In the Middle Ages, Moorish and Muslim garden designers used fountains to create miniature versions of the gardens of paradise. ![]() Roman fountains were decorated with bronze or stone masks of animals or heroes. In addition to providing drinking water, fountains were used for decoration and to celebrate their builders. Until the late 19th century most fountains operated by gravity, and needed a source of water higher than the fountain, such as a reservoir or aqueduct, to make the water flow or jet into the air. Petersburg, Russia) (8) Dubai Fountain (Dubai)įountains were originally purely functional, connected to springs or aqueducts and used to provide drinking water and water for bathing and washing to the residents of cities, towns and villages. Peter's Square (Rome) (7) Samson and the Lion fountain (Peterhof, St. (Center) Jet d'eau, (Geneva, Switzerland)Ĭlockwise from top right (1) Fontana di Trevi (Rome) (2) Place de la Concorde (Paris) (3) Fountain in the Garden of Versailles (Versailles) (4) The Hundred Fountains, Villa d'Este (Tivoli, Italy) (5) Fuente de los Leones, (The Alhambra, Granada) (6) Fountain in St. Architecture which pours water into a basin or jets it into the air ![]()
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