Fontana dell’Angelo di Orsara di Puglia

The Fountain, built on a primitive plan of 1862, is guarded by a sort of stone hemicycle and is elegant with its slender structure, composed of 12 sides and ending in a spire whose sides (always 12) are concave. The plinth of the artifact is entirely made of stone and at its top are inserted the 12 sides in which the brick alternates with the stone. The six stone sides correspond to six pipes for water supply and as many small tanks suspended for their collection.

The monumental Fountain is improperly called "dell'Angelo" because at its top there is a winged figure and for the devotion of the city of Orsara to the Archangel Michael, but this figure actually represents the Winged Victory and the original name of the Fountain was precisely "of Victory". The architecture was erected in 1898 at the behest of the then newly elected (and therefore victorious....) Mayor Giuseppe Ernesto Maffia.