The Contarini fountain in Bergamo Alta.
When you get up to visit Bergamo you go up to the central square of the village, Piazza Vecchia, in the center of which there is this beautiful marble fountain decorated with sphinxes and lions and a couple of zoomorphic figures.
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The fountain owes its name to Alvise Contarini, podestà of the Republic of Venice, who donated it to the citizens in 1780, when he left his position in the Orobic city. The intention of the then city rector was both to beautify the central Piazza Vecchia, and to provide the inhabitants with a precious instrument that could be used for domestic purposes and against drought.
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