What to See in Scanno - Top Sights and Attractions

The Pisciarello Fountain is located in Scanno, in the province of L'Aquila. It is located on Via Sant'Antonio, near the church of St. Anthony of Padua.

In the 18th century it was a simple rural drinking trough, located outside the city walls, and in 1787 when it was converted into a monumental fountain it was incorporated into the new walls, which in 1837 the wall face was restored, the roof and pipes were replaced, and in 1862 the central mask was replaced. At the same time, work was carried out to restore the terracotta pipeline, and the road surface in front of the fountain was paved in stone. The fountain, made of squared local stone, has an arch above the spout and above the arcosolium a high relief of a ruminant (probably a goat), which replaced the previous one in 1862. Water is emitted from two gargoyles, sort of spouts placed in masks with bizarre figures that release water from their jaws and feed it into two parallelepipeds. The two masks placed next to the arched niche have their plastic at the same time both flat and elaborate, anthropomorphic decoration is mixed with phytomorphic, the beards of the figures are depicted as if they were the corolla of a flower, while the ears look like a late 18th-century ornament. The masks date from the second half of the eighteenth century. The curvilinear pediment of the arch is in the Rococo style. To the left is a niche with a small rose window in which there is a third cinnamon known locally as a "beverino." Below the two parallelepipeds the fountain consists of a basin that collects water before sending it into the sewer system.

The fountain, in ancient times was used by both people and animals.