Summer Fountain - - Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Posted by: 
neoc1
N 38° 06.945 E 013° 21.680
33S E 356351 N 4219925
The Summer Fountain is located on the west corner of the Quattro Canti (Four Corners) at the intersection of Via Maqueda and the Corso Vittorio Emanuele in Palermo, Sicily.
Waymark Code: WMV3GG
Location: Sicilia, Italy
Date Posted: 02/17/2017
Views: 4
Each of the four seasons are represented by a fountain on the four corners of the Baroque Piazza Vigliena commonly known as the Quattro Canti in Palermo, Sicily. The Winter Fountain is located in front of the Monte di Pietà.
The Summer Fountain features a statue of a woman with very curly hair wearing an floor length dress under a knee length, half-sleeve outer garment and a cape which is tied over her right shoulder and worn over her left shoulder, upper arm and side. Her left hand is at chest level. She is holding a bouquet of flowers, that look like unopened poppies, by the stems which are tide into a bundle. He right hand is by her hip and is holding a bundle of stems. A lion-like like creature looks out from her legs at her left side.
Water flows out of the mouth of a face of a man wearing a peaked cap into a basin decorated with bunting of fruit and flowers. Water then flows down from two spouts on either side of the basin into a larger, similarly decorated basin below. The fountain is set two steps up on a scalloped pedestal.
Visit Instructions:
Please post another photo of the fountain and tell us your opinion about the fountain.