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Fontana di Valguarnera

Fontana di Valguarnera

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Fontana di Valguarnera

Name: Fontana di Valguarnera
Rating: 2

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Location: Partinico, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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1. Fontana di Valguarnera – Capaci Massacre Memorial loop from Partinico

104km

04:25

810m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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2. Fontana di Valguarnera – Porta Palermo loop from Partinico

41.6km

01:57

490m

Intermediate road ride. Good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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3. Great panoramic point over Palermo – Caffè del Corso loop from Partinico

100.0km

05:09

1,770m

Expert road ride. Very good fitness required. Mostly well-paved surfaces and easy to ride.

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Gabriele

July 7, 2024

Very valuable work from the seventeenth century, which deserves better protection and greater attention from everyone.
Consisting of two main parts, that is, a wall front and a large basin delimited by a parapet. The space in front is delimited by appropriately shaped paving stones for water disposal. The central front is made up of five blocks, on three of which there are bas-reliefs of human-like figures. In the upper part there is a large plaque engraved with the date of construction (1609) and a dedication.
The central front ends with a tympanum surmounted by three pinnacles supporting three hemispheres. In the central part of the tympanum there is a stone coat of arms with symbolic figures engraved on it: a lion, a palm tree and the head of a man. On the side of the front there are ten daisies, five on each side, made in bas-relief on tuff blocks, in the center of which there is a hole for the water to escape.
The water system, which no longer exists, which fed the outlets, consisted of a canal placed against the support wall of the fountain itself. The pool, paved in terracotta, is delimited by a parapet made of a series of blocks of molded tuff stone. The fountain stopped working in the 1950s due to the open-air water supply system polluting the water.

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Location: Partinico, Palermo, Sicily, Italy

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Fontana di Valguarnera

1. Fontana di Valguarnera – Capaci Massacre Memorial loop from Partinico

2. Fontana di Valguarnera – Porta Palermo loop from Partinico

3. Great panoramic point over Palermo – Caffè del Corso loop from Partinico

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