Example sentences for: fontana

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  • This is the general area of the Trevi Fountain (Fontana di Trevi) which benefited from Fellini’s keen sense of Baroque aesthetics when he dipped the dazzling Anita Ekberg in its legendarily purifying waters for his film La Dolce Vita.

  • Rounding off the south side are the twin Baroque churches, Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto, completed by the 17th-century masters Gianlorenzo Bernini and Carlo Fontana.

  • Nicola Pisano’s intricately carved and recently restored 13th-century Fontana Maggiore (Great Fountain) has long been everyone’s favorite point of rendezvous, in the shadow of the 14th-century cathedral.

  • On the island’s west side, the Fontana Aretusa is a freshwater spring (just steps from the ocean) with black-and-white ducks swimming in its semi-circular papyrus pond.

  • Nature lovers can hike (or rent a donkey) up the extinct volcano of Mount Epomeo, 788 m (2,585 ft), starting from Fontana for unforgettable views of the island and the Bay of Naples.


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