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In this article we want to make a perfect walk the fountains of Rome: the richest city in the world for water and fountains. So since antiquity, when well aqueducts 11 ensured the city thousands and thousands of litres of water a day, which went to feed the many fountains and the greatest spa. The looting of the Goths, with the consequent cutting of water, put an end to this wealth, and only at the end of the sixteenth century popes adequately faced the problem of water supply. Since then Rome was decorated with dozens of monumental fountains to celebrate the Pope's munificence, often accompanied by tanks and troughs public conceived utilitarian purposes. And yet today, while admire these masterpieces, it refreshes the excellent drinking water flowing from the typical fountains nicely calls "nasoni" because of the unusual shape of the curved pipe.

In Rome are preserved important mosaic mural that tell ancient stories and illustrate complex theological concepts.

These fascinating paintings made almost entirely of glass, in a wide range of colors and shades, which are applied to layers of malta, were carried out in different places of worship.