Storia di Sorrento : The Fountain

You accesses the road from Rate Plaza, buildings you/they can admire all over the world you ancient risalenti to Six hundred and some famous restaurants for the quality of the dishes and the professionalism of the personnel.

At the end of the road there is a fountain that initially it was found on the parapet of the vallone of the side of midday of the ancient door of Sorrento (today Rate Plaza). In 1873 the Town Suggestion deliberated to move the fountain in a proper place for the City being a good of public utility. The present epigraph on the same one remembers the event, even if, probably, when it was situated in the street Sant'Antonino you/they were not used all of its marbles. You brings the epigraph: D.D. FONTEM/SITU SQUALIDUM VETUSTATE DESUETUM / Stage HAC VIISQUE / Here DEXTRORSUM Here SINISTRORSUM / Layer Headstone VEL GLAREA RESTITUTIS / SYINDICUS ET IV. YOU VEER / MUNICIPII SURRENTINI / REFICIUNDUM EXPOLIENDUMQUE CURARUNT / A.D. MDCCCLXIII. SORDIBUS ABSTERSIS INSTRUCTO MARMORE / PRISCUS FONS NITET ET MANEAT GRATIOR UNDA TIBI
(Devoted to the Lord. The Mayor and the four aldermen of the Commune of Sorrento occupied him, in 1863, to refer and to polish up the fountain, bleak for the incrostazione and inactive for antiquity, (once) you reconstruct this plaza and the streets, one whom brings to the right and the other that goes to the left, with a pavement of stone or gravel. Removed away the ugliness, restored the part in marble, l‘antico source is resplendent and (we wish) that a sip gushes out to you more pleasant).