Fountain

The inauguration of the first public aqueduct – which modernized the water supply of Corinaldo, freeing it from the old wells built by Attardise under the rule of the Sforza and the old springs built at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and laid down after a path of 25 kilometers of the pure waters of the basin located at the top of the hill S. Maria – took place on September 30, 1894 and required a large crowd contest, also from the surroundings. At the initial project of a fountain consisting of a simple cast iron column with two jets and no figure and an expense of 900 lire, the Assembly and the Council of the time, aware of the importance of placing emphasis on the new work and “Wanting to embellish the square of a fountain that succeeds with ornaments and decorations”, they wrote a project costing 2,600 lire. The fountain was placed in the current Piazza del Terreno and then moved to its current location in the 1930s. It is curious to note that one of the reasons that determined the realization of the work was health and the Administration itself motivating the choice recalling the periodic presence of epidemic diseases, In particular, the serious cholera epidemic of 1855 that caused Corinaldo no less than 244 deaths due to the 566 cases recorded between 14 July and 30 September.