What is the most famous fountain in the world?
There are many spectacular fountains around the world, let’s see what are the most famous fountains!
1. Dubai Musical Fountain
The Dubai Fountain was designed by WET, the manufacturer of the original Bellagio Fountain in the United States, with a total investment of 218 million US dollars. The total length of the Dubai Music Fountain is 275 meters, and the maximum spray can reach 150 meters, which is equivalent to the height of a 50-story building.
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2. Magic Fountain of Montjuic, Barcelona
The Magic Fountain of Barcelona is located in Piazza Espana, Barcelona. It has 3,620 water fountain nozzles, 8 different colors, and 4,760 lights. It is a music fountain famous for its varied colors. Thousands of visitors come to watch the fountain show every night, the water fountain dance with light and music, as if it’s performing like a magician, catching visitors’ eyes with its mystery and beauty.
3. Bellagio Fountains, Las Vegas
The Bellagio Fountain is located on a man-made lake at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The Bellagio Fountain has more than 1,200 nozzles, enabling them to work with more than 4,500 stage fountain monitors that can spray water up to 24 stories high. Dancing to the music and lights, they captivate the audience with their graceful movements.
4. The King Fahd’s Fountain, Jeddah
Also known as the Jeddah Fountain, was built between 1980 and 1983 and is the tallest man-made fountain in the world. Located in the port city of Jeddah on Saudi Arabia’s west coast, the King Fahd Fountain draws water from the Red Sea and shoots water up to 1,024 feet high and speed up to 233 miles per hour. It is detailed in the book Desert Oasis Saudi Arabia.
5. Jet D’eau, Geneva
Originally located on the lower reaches of the Rhone River and used to drain water after artisans turned off water taps in their shops, the 140-meter-high fountain was moved to the center of Geneva Harbor. At first, people were worried that such a large fountain would spoil the beauty of the harbor, but surprisingly, this simple but clever design had become a symbol of Geneva in the years to come.
6. Fountain of Wealth, Singapore
Located in the financial center, the Fountain of wealth is one of Singapore’s iconic buildings. It is only open at certain times. The fountain is surrounded by 12 zodiac signs on the ground, and walking around it three times is said to will bring wealth. The Fountain of Wealth is made up of four slanted bronze columns topped by a bronze ring with a diameter of 66 meters. The structure is 13.8 meters high vertically. The whole fountain covers an area of 1,683.07 square meters, and the jet of water can reach 30 meters.
7. People’s Friendship Fountain, Moscow
The People’s Friendship Fountain (also known as the Fountain of Friendship of Peoples, the Fountain of National Unity), located behind the main exhibition hall of the All-Russia Exhibition Center in central Moscow, was built in June 1959 and is known as the world’s expensive gilded fountain. Fifteen golden statues of beautiful girls in national costumes of the republics, holding flowers and fruits and vegetables, stand on the edge of the fountain pool, representing the friendship of the peoples of the 15 republics of the former Soviet Union. In the middle of the “golden statue” stands a giant golden ear of wheat, symbolizing the harvest, with a cluster of sunflower flowers below.
8. Banpo Bridge Rainbow Fountain, Seoul
The Moonlight Rainbow Fountain in Seoul, South Korea, is cleverly designed on either side of the Banpo Bridge across the Han River. The fountain has around 10,000 spouts, shooting out a total of nearly 190 tons of water per minute, and designers have placed LED lights on each spout to add a touch of comfort to the fountain at night. The fountain is open from March to October every year. It is open for 15 minutes at noon and varies in the evening, but on weekends, people can enjoy the beautiful shadow of the fountain from 5 p.m.
9. Trevi Fountain, Rome
Trevi Fountain, also known as the girl fountain, is most famous for its “Wishing fountain” or “Wishing fountain”. It is said that if you throw a coin with your back to the fountain, you can make a good wish if you throw it into the water. The fountain is the most famous of Rome’s fountains and is so popular that around 3,000 euros in coins are usually dropped into the fountain every day.
10. Crown Fountain, Chicago
The Crown Fountain is located at Millennium Park, Chicago, designed by designed by Catalan artist Jom Planza and opened in July 2004. Crown Fountain is a black granite reflecting pool flanked by glass brick towers that stand 15.2 meters (50 feet) tall and are equipped with light-emitting diodes (leds) to display digital images of the faces inside. Due to weather conditions, the fountain is only supplied between May and October. It flows from the two towers at irregular intervals and through spouts on the facade of the towers.