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Fontana del Garraffo

Fontana del Garraffo, Baroque marble fountain in Piazza Marina, Palermo, Italy.

Fontana del Garraffo is a 1698 Baroque marble fountain carved by Gioacchino Vitagliano to a design by Paolo Amato. A square basin with rounded corners and a lobed rim receives water from four dolphins that hold shell-shaped basins with their heads and suspend them by the tail. Above, a pyramidal rise ends in a goddess of abundance over an eagle fighting a hydra, whose mouths start the water flow.

The fountain was carved in 1698 by Gioacchino Vitagliano to a design by architect Paolo Amato, paid for by the Spanish Praetor Andrea Salazar. It stood in the Vucciria market, in front of the Genio del Garraffo and near the church of Sant'Eulalia dei Catalani, until 1862, when it was moved to Piazza Marina. A separate fountain, the Garraffello, was erected in the same market in 1589 or 1591.

The name derives from the Arabic gharraf, meaning abundant water, a reminder of the Arab period of Palermo. The fountain is often confused with the Fontana del Garraffello, erected in 1589 or 1591 in the nearby Vucciria and still standing there. The Garraffo was the centre of the Vucciria market square until 1862.

The fountain stands in Piazza Marina, at the lower end of Via Vittorio Emanuele, the old Cassaro, in Palermo's historic centre. It sits on a raised three-step base on a marble platform, so it can be walked around and seen from all four sides. The square is a public space open at any hour.

The eagle in the sculpture might represent either Palermo itself or Habsburg Spanish power, offering multiple layers of meaning to viewers. This ambiguity invites visitors to form their own interpretation of what the monument symbolizes.

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1698
Creator
Gioacchino Vitagliano
Architectural style
baroque architecture
Made from material
marble
GPS coordinates
38.11796,13.36746
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