Lantro Fountain ---

Conveying water into a city perched on a hill was of fundamental importance and allowed it to resist for a long time in case of siege. All the water sources present within the circle of the walls were therefore used and their water was channeled and collected in cisterns. But how to purify the water? By resorting to the double basin system, a technique already in use among the ancient Romans. The water from the spring was channeled and slowed down inside the first basin, allowing impurities (sand and other particles) to settle on the bottom. The structure you will be able to visit dates back five hundred years ago: the environment is decidedly evocative, with the vault of the ceiling converging in a single column, among the reflections produced by the crystalline water that fills this basin, capac