{"id":2811,"date":"2015-02-27T10:24:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T09:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.it\/articoli\/?p=317"},"modified":"2021-05-03T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T10:05:16","slug":"the-big-noses-of-rome-a-heritage-to-preserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scuolaromit.com\/en\/the-big-noses-of-rome-a-heritage-to-preserve\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;big noses&#8221; of Rome: a heritage to preserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many peculiarities and beauties of the eternal city are its noses. \u201cSorry? What are you talking about?\u201d You&#8217;re probably wondering, not be aware of having seen them around many times and to have probably also used them with pleasure in the hottest days in and around the city. We are talking of the <strong>public drinking fountains in Rome<\/strong> (made of cast iron, around 1,20 m high and with a cylindrical shape) from which gushes always drinking <strong>water available to all for free<\/strong>, and whose name comes from the curved shape of the faucet that <strong>looks just like a big nose<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Rome is the only city in the world to have fountains made only for the purpose of quenching the thirst of the people and it has been estimated to have <strong>about 2,500 of those \u201cnoses\u201d scattered throughout the territory<\/strong>. There is a little fountain more or less everywhere, in the streets, in public parks, close to markets or post offices or just along the street of a peripheral neighbourhood: you must have noticed them! Recently a free app was created in partnership with Acea (a multiservice company active in the management and development of networks and services in waterworks, energy and the environment), to pinpoint the \u201cbig noses\u201d scattered around the city and, in case of need, to quickly find the closest one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.com\/ene\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/nasoni.jpg\" alt=\"nasoni\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-295\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cnasone\u201d is one of Rome\u2019s symbols<\/strong>; but when did it appear in the city for the first time? The famous \u201cbig noses\u201d were realized for the first time in <strong>1874<\/strong> at the behest of Mayor <strong>Luigi Pianciani<\/strong>: the City Council approved the creation of a lot of fountains in cast iron with three nozzles decorated with dragon heads, from where the water flowed down, then through a grate, into the sewer conduct. Subsequently, the model was slightly modified by removing the three openings in the shape of a dragon&#8217;s head and installing only a simple curved and smooth faucet. For the rest of the model, the \u201cbig noses\u201d have remained unchanged over time, maintaining their charm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.com\/ene\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/02\/fontanella.jpg\" alt=\"fontanella\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the oldest fountains, dating back to the original batch and still working, is located in Piazza della Rotonda, near the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.com\/en\/the-pantheon\/\">Pantheon<\/a>, and is one of the few vintage \u201cbig noses\u201d still working in Rome. The others are located in Via delle tre Cannelle (near Palazzo Colonna), in Via di San Teodoro (near the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scuolaromit.com\/en\/the-bocca-della-verita-cinema-history\/\">Mouth of Truth<\/a>), and in Piazza San Giovanni della Malva and Piazza Priscinula in Trastevere. How about getting up and going to have a look and to take a step back in time (as well as a drink of really fresh water)?<\/p>\n<p>The Municipality continues to produce these peculiar little fountains and to install them also in the new neighbourhoods, so, for many years to come we will not remain short of \u201cbig noses\u201d gushing fresh and drinking water, free for all. One of the symbols of Rome, in other words, still enjoys pretty good health!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the many peculiarities and beauties of the eternal  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-en","category-rome"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The &quot;big noses&quot; of Rome: a heritage to preserve &#8211; Scuola Romit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scuolaromit.com\/en\/the-big-noses-of-rome-a-heritage-to-preserve\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The &quot;big noses&quot; 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