Fountain Facts for Kids

A Fountain is an arrangement, usually made by man; in it, the water from a source is captured in some way. Most often, it is used to fill a basin of some kind. Sometimes there are many basins, and water runs from one into the next. It is also common to have sculptures in fountains.

Sometimes jets are used to make the water go high into the air, using pressure.

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Attic Greek vase from South Italy, about 480 B.C.
An Egyptian fountain on the Temple of Dendera
Hellenistic fountain head from the Pergamon museum
Reconstruction of a Roman courtyard fountain in Pompeii (1st century AD)
Lavabo at Le Thoronet Abbey, Provence, (12th century)
Shalimar Gardens in Lahore, Pakistan (1641)
Fountain in Baku, Azerbaijan
Pasargadae Persian Gardens
The Fountain of the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra (14th century)
Fountain of Ahmed III next to Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey
Tivoli, Villa d'Este
Le Cento Fontane (The Hundred Fountains)
The Fontana Masini in Piazza del Popolo in Cesena
Fontana di Trevi, the Trevi Fountain by Nicola Salvi, (1730).
The new Trafalgar Square fountains in London, with new pumps and lighting, opened in June 2009
The Tammerkoski's musical fountains during the 2020 Light Festival in Tampere, Finland
The Splash Fountain in Krasnodar, Russia.
The magic fountain in Montjuic, Spain.
Illuminated fountain
The book The Theory and Practice of Gardening by Dezallier d'Argenville (1709) showed different types of fountain nozzles which would create different shapes of water, from bouquets to fans.
Fountain nozzles which water gets cut off.
King Fahd's Fountain
Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi by Bernini, (1648–51)
Fontana della Barcaccia, (1627)
Fountains of St. Peter's Square by Carlo Maderno (1614) and Bernini (1677)
Triton Fountain by Bernini, (1642)
Fontana delle Api (Fountains of the Bees) (1644)
Samson and the Lion fountain at Peterhof Palace, Russia (1800–1802)
Sea Canal
Roman Fountains (1763–80)
Danaida Fountain
Fontaine du Palmier, Paris (1809)
Fountain in the Place de la Concorde in Paris (1840)
Fountain in Trafalgar Square, (1845)
Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, New York City (1873)
The "Pont d'eau' from the 1931 Paris Colonial Exhibit, created a "bridge" of water forty meters long and six meters wide.
Buckingham Fountain in Chicago (1933)
Fountain of Prometheus at the Rockefeller Center in New York City (1933)
The battery of water cannon at the Palais de Chaillot at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1937. The water cannon still function.
The "Kissing Students" fountain at the Raekoja plats square near Tartu Town Hall in Tartu, Estonia (1948)
Stravinsky Fountain, next to the Pompidou Center, Paris (1983)
Fontaine de la Pyramide, Cour Napoléon of the Louvre, (1988)
Fontaine Cristaux, Homage to Béla Bartok, Jean-Yves Lechevallier, Paris, (1980)
Fountain at Raisina Hill, Rajpath near Rashtrapati Bhavan in Delhi (1929)
The Organ Fountain at the Villa d'Este, Tivoli (1550–1572)
The Château d'eau and plaza of the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900. The fountains were illuminated with different colors at night.
The musical fountain of the Bellagio Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, with pivoting nozzles to vary the patterns of the water, controlled by computers and accompanied by music (1998)
Dubai Fountain in the United Arab Emirates (2009) can shoot water 150 meters in the air, or present computer-choreographed water dancing to music
Multimedia Fountain Roshen is the only one in Ukraine and the largest floating fountain in Europe, built in the river Southern Buh in Vinnytsia City near Festivalny Isle (Kempa Isle)
Multimedia Fountain Kangwon Land is considered Asia's largest musical fountain.
The Fonte Gaia, Piazza del Campo, Siena, Italy by Jacopo della Quercia (1419) (replaced by a copy in 1868)
Fountain at Het Loo Palace in Apeldoorn, Netherlands
The Schöner Brunnen (Beautiful Fountain) in Nuremberg, Germany. (1385–96)
Samson and the Lion Fountain (1800–02), Peterhof, Russia
Buckingham Fountain (1927) in Chicago
Dubai Fountain (2008), a computer-programmed musical fountain, is 250 m (820 ft) long and can jet water 150 m (490 ft) into the air
The El Alamein Fountain (1959–61) in Sydney, designed by Robert Woodward, was the first "dandelion" fountain
The Emil Aaltonen Memorial (1969), a 4.5 metres (15 ft) tall fountain at the Tammela Square in Tampere, designed by Raimo Utriainen
Fountains in the Park of the Reserve, Lima, Peru

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