Roma - Fontane

Piazza dell'Emporio
Fontana delle Anfore

The architect Pietro Lombardi in the 20’s won a competition run by the municipality of Rome to design some local fountains. His most imposing work is the fountain of the Anfore for the Testaccio zone where, over the centuries, with the broken jars from the nearby fluvial river of Ripa Grande a travertine fountain by Lombardi was erected with a circular base divided into four parts with the same number of flights of steps. Each part contains a basin into which water is poured from a jar whilst volutes and columns join the steps to the heavy central group of jars above.