To reach the Fonte Nova frome the Town Square of Montopoli di Sabina pass by the underpass called Porta Farfese, and you will easily reach a clearing on the left, the access to the fountain.
Fonte Nova
Position
Via Vittorio Veneto, 70
02034 Montopoli di Sabina (RI)
Opening hours
Non definito
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To reach the Fonte Nova frome the Town Square of Montopoli di Sabina pass by the underpass called Porta Farfese, and you will easily reach a clearing on the left, the access to the fountain.
In 1553 the consuls Sciarra, Olivario and Hiemalo have built a fountain – Fonte Nova precisely – to exploit the water from a discovered right before. The adjective “new” has passed over time, despite the several changes over the centuries.
Fonte Nova and its three basins have always played the role of the public wash house, and over a small door on the right wall still reads: TANK RESERVED TO INFECTIOUS DESEASES, as a spa – separate from the others – was dedicated to wash garments of those who had been victims of the “Spanish” epidemic, occurred at the end of the First World War.
CURIOSITY
An epigraph from Fonte Nova and now preserved in the Council Chambe:
“Condita visceribus telluris tempore longo His modo consulibus limpia reperta fui Porphirio Hiemalo claro de sanguine nato Vergilio Sciarrae Prospero Olivario Necnon et paulo deberet reddere grates Qui velit antiquis sumere fontibus aquam.
A.D. MDLIII Bellus aquae fueram Sciarra repertor ego”.
Sunk long in the bowels of the earth I have been discovered clear and clear now, the following consoles: Porfirio Hiemalo born of noble blood, Virgilio Sciarra and Prospero Olivario. It should make them not a few with those who want to tap into the here ‘ ancient water fountain.
In the year of Lord 1553 But the wonderful discoverer water was me, Sciarra.