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Manneken Pis
Situated three souvenir-shop-lined blocks from the Grand Place is the little lad himself, sculpted by Jerôme Duquesnoy. The tourist office (in Hôtel de Ville) can tell you when he’ll be dressed in one of his costumes (on display at the Musée de la Ville de Bruxelles), at which time this youthful fountain sometimes spouts beer or wine instead of water.
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Borrelmanneke
The importance of jenever to Hasselt is symbolised by the Borrelmanneke fountain. Here, a little guy lying on the rump of a cow pours liquid from a leaking barrel to a gang of delighted pigs. During the jenever festival in October, the fountain spurts jenever rather than water, and the little man is presented with an article of clothing from the visiting jenever brotherhood.
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Fountain of Sultan Ahmet III
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Kaiser Wilhelm's Fountain
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Fuente de los Caballos
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Marktbrunnen
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Schöner Brunnen
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Wasserspiele
In summer a highlight are the Wasserspiele, water fountains that are synchronised to do some spectacular spurting.
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Kindlifresserbrunnen
This fountain depicts a giant, snacking…on children.
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Fontaine du Banneret
A fanciful gold-leafed fountain topped with a banner-wielding knight.
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Fontaine de la Justice
A fanciful gold-leafed fountain topped with a maiden representing Justice.
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Fountain
The grand marble Fountain gushes and splashes all day long, a refreshing sight on a hot day.
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Turkish fountain
Inland from the medieval fortress is the labyrinthine old quarter, where you will see a Turkish fountain .
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Roland's Fountain
Built in 1572, Roland's Fountain, at the centre of Hlavné nám, may have originally been a fire hydrant.
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Fischkastenbrunnen
In the Marktplatz is the Fischkastenbrunnen, a fountain where fishmongers kept their river fish alive on market days.
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Caritas Springvandet
The Charity Fountain is the most beautiful in Copenhagen. It was built in 1608 and is a popular rallying point for buskers.
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Triton Fountain
Just round the corner from the Rynek, on ul Bracka, there is a 1701 copy of the Baroque Triton Fountain by Bernini in Rome.
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Fontana Grande
In its eponymous piazza, the ‘Big Fountain’ lives up to its name, and is also the oldest of Viterbo’s Gothic fountains.
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Hercules Fountain
In the centre of Marktplatz is the Hercules fountain; in medieval times petty criminals were chained to it and left to face the populace.
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Ayvazovsky Fountain
In the small central park you'll come to the charmingly oriental Ayvazovsky Fountain, designed and funded by the eponymous painter during the 1887 drought.
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Fontana del Calamo
Head along Corso Mazzini, where you will see the 16th-century Fontana del Calamo, 13 masked spouts supposedly representing effigies of those who had been beheaded.
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Bertoldsbrunnen
Edging north along Kaiser-Joseph-Strasse brings you to the trickling Bertoldsbrunnen, which marks where the city's thoroughfares have crossed since it was founded in 1091.
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Zsolnay Fountain
The porcelain Zsolnay Fountain, with a lustrous glaze and pagan bull's head, to the southeast of Széchenyi tér, was donated to the city by the Zsolnay factory in 1892.
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Fountain
Right at the heart of Ortygia is the handsome Piazza Archimede, with its 19th-century fountain (by Giulio Moschetti) of Artemis (the goddess of hunting) surrounded by handmaidens and sirens.
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Rimondi Fountain
Pride of place among the many vestiges of Venetian rule goes to the Rimondi Fountain with its spouting lion heads and Corinthian capitals, built first in 1588 and rebuilt in 1626 by a rector of the city, A Rimondi.
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