Fountain sights in Messina
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Fontana di Orione
The pale marble Fontana di Orione (1553) depicts a lounging Orion, the mythical founder of Messina. The fountain was constructed by Giovanni Angelo Montorsoli (pupil to Michelangelo) to commemorate the construction of Messina's aqueduct - the city's houses were the first in Sicily to receive running water. The figures that adorn it represent the Rivers Tiber, Nile, Ebro and Camaro.
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Fontana del Nettuno
Where Via Garibaldi spills into Piazza dell'Unità d'Italia, is one of Messina's great fountains, the 16th-century Fontana del Nettuno (Neptune's Fountain) by Montorsoli. The figures are actually copies: the originals are housed in the museum.
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