The Latona Fountain was built in the second half of the 19th century in the gardens of Versailles during the reign of Louis XIII. On top of the fountain is a statue of the Greek goddess Leto

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The Latona Fountain in the Gardens of Versailles was copied by the architect Hauptmann and set up in the garden in front of Herrenchiemsee Palace - It is the mythical story of the goddess Latona. Together with her children Diana and Apollo, she crowns the fountain as a marble figure. Their story is told in Ovid's Metamorphoses: Latona and her children, who were dying of thirst and completely exhausted because of the summer heat, came up to them and asked for something to drink. But the peasants forbid Latona, although told:

Lycian farmers were once collecting rushes and reeds by a small lake when she humbly pleads and persuasively argues not only to drink, but to stir up mud in the water to make it undrinkable. Latona then curses her to live in this lake forever. In their delusion, the peasants do not recognize their sin and continue in their blasphemous activities. The goddess turns the peasants into animals. wiki.

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Location: Chiemsee, Chiemgau, Traunstein, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany

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