Dubrovnik, Croatia
Fontana by Keith Mac Uidhir 김채윤 (Thanks for 12m views)
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Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Taken from the city walls
Built from 1438 to 1440, the Big Onofrio's Fountain is a sixteen-sided container with a cupola, and was one of the ending points of the aqueduct system. Each of the sixteen sides has a unique "maskeron" design (stone-carved masked face) with the faucet projecting out of the mouth of the each design. Unfortunately the maskerons have been damaged during one of the recent repairs done to the fountain. The fountain's cupola was made by Petar Martinov from Milan. However, the fountain was also partly damaged by the earthquake in 1667 hence the current look is missing a dragon statue that had once been on top of the cupola.
This fountain, with the beauty of its architecture and the gurgling of its clean water, was intended to preserve the memory of this significant technical and important feat. As a favourite meeting place for the city's youth, it entered into the decor, along with the Small Onofrio Fountain, in the Renaissance comedy "Novela od Stanca" by Marin Drzic, the greatest Dubrovnik comedy writer.
Small Onofrio's Fountain (Mala Onofrijeva fontana), Dubrovnik
The Dubrovnik Onofrijeva fountain as seen from the city walls.
The people of Dubrovnik covered the fountain with sand bags during the war of the early 1990s to protect it.
