Fountain sights in Syracuse
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Fontana Aretusa
Just south of Piazza del Duomo, along Via Picherali, is the Fontana Aretusa, where fresh water bubbles up as it did in ancient times when it was the city's main water supply. Legend has it that the goddess Artemis transformed her beautiful handmaiden Aretusa into the spring to protect her from the unwelcome attention of the river god Alpheus. In her watery guise Aretusa fled from Arcadia under the sea, hotly pursued by Alpheus, their waters mingling as she came to the surface in Ortygia.
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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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