Fountains to see France

It is obvious that the most famous fountain is that of Puget square! It is an amazing bushy fountain, called Fontaine des Trois Dauphins, designed by the architect Toscat (1782). But the city has almost a hundred like those of Le Panier, L'Intendance, La Fédération, Le Tambourin, La Pigne, La Poissonnerie, Le Globe, La Pucelle, Le Buveur, Le Mûrier and many others...

This fountain is located on the Lesdiguières square. It was built in 1548 in pink marble, from the old quarry of Salados, below the needles of Chabrières.

Located in the immediate vicinity of the chapel, the Notre-Dame fountain is built of stone and surmounted by a star and a heart. The fountain also houses a statue of the Virgin Mary. Listed as a Historic Monument since 1933, you can access its pool by going down a few steps. Until the Second World War, the Notre-Dame Fountain provided the inhabitants of the district with drinking water and was also used to water livestock.

You sit on a bench facing the castle and a 20-metre high water jet rises in front of you! As you sit down, you have just activated the mechanism of a contemporary work of art by Jeppe Hein. When you get up, the jet falls back, which surprises you a ^second time. And you wonder: that's exactly what the artist wants! The work Did I Miss Something? ("Did I miss something?"), has been relocated here for the Estuaire 2012 art event. Indeed, it had been installed on the Loire in 2007, but the currents had damaged the mechanism. Enjoy the wooded park and on Sundays, visit the guest rooms decorated by artists!

It has the particularity of preserving young girls from men's the.

This monumental fountain is the sculptor James Pradier. Dedicated to water, which accompanies the history of the city, the feminine figure represents Nimes, and the allegorical characters surrounding it symbolize the Roach, the Rhône, the fountain of Eure (the one that the Romans have captured to bring water to Nîmes by the famous aqueduct) and the fountain of Nîmes.

It welcomes you at the entrance to the village: this remarkable fountain would actually date from the Middle Ages, but it joined its current location in the sixteenth century. The water comes from the mountains by some kind of closed gutter, stone. This fountain is classified as an additional inventory of Historic Monuments.

Heading towards the Mousson plateau, you will reach the Red Fountain, which has made Pont-à-Mousson famous for over 500 years. Coming from the top of the hill, the water which flows there deposits a reddish ferruginous sediment which gives its name to the fountain. In the 15th century, the spring was already said to have medicinal properties. Many people went there to relieve all sorts of ailments: asthma, anaemia, fatigue... but also to restore beautiful colours to their pale cheeks! It is said that the Cardinal of Richelieu found it excellent!

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It flows on a Roman site and dates from the 16th century.

Surmounted by the statue of God, it was built in memory of viticulture, which was a particularly important source of profit in the th century.

This is a rectangular basin with the enamels of Venice and is signed by Yaacov Agam. A basement installation helps maintain water movement.

Designed by the architect Visconti, from 1843 to 1848, she was decorated with statues of four famous bishops: Bossuet, Fénelon, Massillon and Fléchier, designating the Parisian people to the four Cardinal points.

Edmée Bouchardon sculpted her between 1739 and 1747, one of the few fountains erected in the first half of the th century. The three main statues are allegorical figures of the City of Paris situated between the Seine and the Marne. The Four seasons are represented in the side niches of the fountain. The triangular pediment, decorated with a crown of laurel, was originally a rehaussé of the weapons of France.

It existed before the construction of the ramparts. With griffins, it allowed water supply in the event of a seat. You can reach it by 21 steps.

This museum of sacred art, the only one of its kind in the region, is one of the highlights of Pont-Saint-Esprit. Located in the Maison des Chevaliers, a 12th century building, it presents, in a very successful museographic dimension, ceremonial rooms, 14th and 15th century frescoes as well as a superb collection of religious goldsmithery. One passes from one era or civilization to another without chronology, with the artistic expression of the sacred as the guiding thread.