Worlds Most Bizarre and Intriguing Water Fountains
Fountains come in all shapes and sizes, their waters variously displayed from a cascading flow to a gushing geyser, and something ingrained within the human psyche responds to the splash and flow that soothes, relaxes, and inspires reflection. The captivating beauty of abundant and extravagant flow of water rising, tumbling, spilling, and jetting into the air in the hot summer heat provides a stunning, cooling, and refreshing oasis as the waters dance in the sunlight, or colorfully and brightly illuminated against dark evening skies.
This fountain forms the entrance to the headquarters in Wattens, Austria of
Swarovski Crystal. Photo Michael Slonecker
The resonating sounds of splashing, flowing or moving waters can mask niggling noises in bustling cities as one listens to the fragile sounds of water rather than distracting clatter and blare of traffic, providing a peaceful and serene environment.
Frisco Square fountain in Texas. Photo C MacCubbin
Untermeyer fountain. Photo Ralph Hockens
Grand Army Plaza fountain, Brooklyn. Photo zenobia joy
Types of Fountains
The aesthetic use of water flowing monuments vary from traditional wall fountains to free-standing structures and edifices, flowing and ebbing over a diversity of surfaces of stone, concrete or metal, located in small, artificial, ornamental ponds, basins and formal garden pools, often including sculpture and artwork.
Frog fountain in koi pond. Walnut Creek, California. Photo John Morgan
Crown Fountain, named in honor of Chicago’s Crown family, was designed by
Catalan conceptual artist Jaume Plensa, and is the first of its kind in the world.
Photo KM Photography
Crown Fountain. Photo Albany Tim
Animated Fountains
Animated fountains frequently use laminar jets that provide water which moves like ping pong balls in animation, so that it breaks up as the height varies. The behavior of each jet operates independently so that the water packets collide with themselves. They can even discharge a ball of water which then explodes, showering people with a fine mist.
One of the fountains in the walk of a thousand fountains. Photo Ingorrr
Walk of a thousand fountains. Photo Ingorrr
The twins, suckling at the teats of the she-wolf in Rome. Photo Ingorrr
Children’s Fountain by Tom Corbin in Kansas City, Missouri. Photo Charvex
Musical Fountains
Musical fountains are a type of animated fountain that dance in time with recorded or live music, creating an aesthetic design and sometimes 3-D images. They’re performed with the effects of sound waves and light or laser against water particles in which the water streams, activated in strategically-timed durations, refracting and reflecting the light, controlled either by a computer or a live “organist” operating the fountain through a switchboard.
Many of the more well-known musical fountains are large-scale, and use hundreds of water jets and laser emitters, the cost of which runs into the millions of dollars, although smaller forms exist where the budget ranges to around a thousand dollars.
A number of companies offer software and hardware that cause pumps to turn on and off and lights to change in response to the bass and treble of music fed through the system, causing the fountain to respond automatically without a need for manual choreography.
A real working organ, powered by water pressure. Photo Ingorrr
Fountains choreographed to music also generally called musical fountains, appear to respond to music but have been programmed beforehand. The earliest of these were played manually by a live operator, who usually controlled pumps or valves and sometimes lights by way of switches on a control panel, and the music was almost always live.
Later, choreography was prerecorded on a punched paper card which was scanned by a computer, and more recently, it has been recorded on tape or CD along with the music. Even so, the choreography must still be painstakingly programmed by hand.
Notable examples of this are fountains on Vasilievsky Island in St. Petersburg, Russia, and the fountains of the Bellagio in the Las Vegas Strip.
The Singing Fountain. Photo Jim Linwood
The Singing Fountain is one of Mariánské Lázně’s unique wonders — a round pool 59 feet (18 meters) in diameter featuring a 12-piece stone sculpture representing a flower in the center of its shallow bowl. The fountain contains 10 intrinsic water jet systems with more than 250 water jets. The water gushes from the water jet in the center up to a height of 20 feet (6 meters). The creator of this artwork is the architect Pavel Mikšík.
The first music piece for the Singing Fountain was composed by the Czech composer Petr Hapka. Other compositions followed — Chopin, Mozart, Bach, Gounod, Smetana, Dvořák amongst others. The fountain’s spellbinding tones resound at every odd hour and the compositions are repeated regularly. The Singing Fountain was first heard on April 30 1986.
Hydraulophone Fountain
A hydraulophone is a fountain that can be played as a musical instrument which is like woodwind instruments, using water instead of air. The embouchure of the instrument occurs at the finger holes, referred to as “mouths.”
Ontario Science Centre hydraulophone flute with 45 finger holes. Here a skilled
hydraulist demonstrates proper hydraulophone technique. Photo Glogger
Hydraulophones often have multiple “mouths,” so that a player can put each finger into a different mouth at the same time in order to play chords, while independently manipulating each finger for separate and individual control of the embouchure of each note in a chord. A skilled hydraulist can slightly “bend” each note in order to play just intonation in any desired key, or to gently and fluidly vary intonation or temperament as a piece of music changes from one key to another.
Splash Fountains
Splash or bathing fountains are designed for people to cool off in and feature nonslip surfaces, so that people can safely use them to cool off in on hot summer days. Many aquatic play features are based around splash pads which have nearly zero depth standing water to eliminate possible drowning hazards, so that no lifeguards or supervision is required for aquatic play areas.
Photo Neil Rickards
International Fountain in Seattle designed specifically as a bathing fountain,
with speakers for music to splash to. Photo Cumulus
Urban beach splash pad at High Park, Toronto. Photo Glogger
The splash pads are usually surfaced in textured non-slip concrete or in crumb rubber, typically located in public pools, public parks, or public playgrounds known as “spraygrounds.”
Many splash pads have some features such as fine mist, which are designed to be moderate enough for children. Other splash fountains are designed for adults, such as joggers or concert goers to cool off in.
The splash fountain in Toronto’s city center, Dundas Square, features spray nozzles that shoot water straight up through stainless steel grilles set right in the middle of the main walkway. The nozzles rise and fall in unison to create the atmosphere of an urban beach, so that there are times when the water level is low enough for children to also play in the water.
Jogger cooling off in the 20 splash fountains that form the centerpiece
of Dundas Square, Toronto. Photo Glogger
Consisting of 600 ground nozzles arranged in groups of 30 (3 rows of 10 nozzles), each group of 30 nozzles is located beneath a stainless steel grille. Twenty of these grilles are arranged in 2 rows of 10, right in the middle of the main walkway through Dundas Square. The entire surface of Dundas Square is made of special nonslip square granite slabs that match the size of the metal grilles.
Fountain of Rings. Photo Liz Jones
Photo Todd Baker
Spray Fountains
Spray fountains are designed to serve as a play area where people can run around and cool off under a canopy of water, and are becoming popular in areas where the construction of public pools is difficult or costly, such as urban areas.
Photo Copyright Erika Tunick
Love Park, Philadelphia. Photo ChiLiu
Decorative metal fountain in Canberra. Photo Dfrg.msc
Fountains for Celebration
Many civic fountains in public parks are commissioned in commemoration of either national or public figures.
The University at Albany hosts an annual “Fountain Day,” for which the university community celebrates the arrival of spring and the near-end of the semester. Drawing large crowds, the fountain-centered event creates something akin to an urban beach.
Fountain at the University of Southern California popularly called “The Finger” because
of its general shape and its orientation toward a certain rival school. Photo Clairity
Tivoli fountain, Ovetta. Photo Antmoose
Levi Plaza, water falling sideways. Photo Marlith
King Fahd’s Fountain, world’s tallest fountain. Photo Ammar Shaker
Located in the city Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and named for King Fahd, the tallest fountain in the world can achieve a height up to 1023 feet (312 meters). Each of the 3 massive pumps deliver 165 gallons (625 liters) of water per second. The water is propelled through 5 inch (12.6 centimeter) nozzles at an incredible speed of 233 mph (375 km/h).
Fountain of Wealth at Suntec City, Singapore listed by the Guinness Book of Records
in 1998 as the largest fountain in the world. Photo Sengkang
The Fountain of Wealth is made of bronze, and consists of a circular ring with a circumference of about 216 feet (66 meters) supported on 4 large slanted columns, occupying an area of 5525 feet (1683.07 sq. meters), with a height of 45 feet (13.8 meters). In the design plan of Suntec City, where the 5 tower blocks represent the fingers and thumb of a left hand emerging from the ground, the fountain forms the palm of the hand.
During certain periods of the day, the fountain is turned off and visitors can walk around a mini fountain at the centre of the fountain’s base for good luck. At night, the fountain is the setting for laser performances, as well as “live” song and laser message dedications.
Fountain of Life
Man has long had a fascination of water which has even had spiritual qualities recognized in religion and ritual, from baptism to death. Christian parables made use of the concept of fountains to a wide degree, specifically the Fountain of Life, associated with the rebirth that was intended to be experienced at the Baptismal font.
An offshoot of the Fountain of Life was the legend of the Fountain of Youth from which one can drink to gain immortality or to regain youth, which Juan Ponce de Leon sought in Florida.
PPG Place located in downtown Pittsburgh. Photo Daveynin
Water Fountain from Wilson Park in Florence, AL. Photo KE4SFQ
Fountain at Columbus Circle in New York City. Photo Mudpig
musical fountain in Xi’an, China. Photo Helga’s Lobster Stew
Animated fountain in Moscow’s Square of Europe, with cascades of water jets
pulsating up and down to imitate the surf. Photo Denghu
Mercury Fountain
The Mercury Fountain was designed for the Barcelona exhibition of 1937, in remembrance of the miners who were killed at the mercury mines at Almaden. Alexander Calder created a memorial fountain flowing with mercury instead of water, which is now enclosed behind glass.
Mercury fountain created by Calder as a tribute to the mercury miners of Almaden.
Photo David Eppstein
Gin Fountain
During New York City’s first drought emergency in modern times, window designer Gene Moore created sparkling fountains hung with diamonds for Tiffany’s. A card in a corner explained, “This is not New York’s precious water. This is gin.”
Lima, Peru. Photo Martintoy
Lima, Peru. Photo Martintoy
Lima, Peru. Photo Martintoy
Fountain show at Bellagio, Las Vegas. Photo Tim Parkinson
Photo Liz Jones
History of Fountains
Fountains have been a significant feature of landscape design since ancient times. Reemerging in the late Middle Ages, they reached their peak in the Renaissance and Baroque eras, with designs in which sculpture became prominent, such as Rome’s Trevi Fountain which was completed in 1762.
Photo Liz Jones
Photo Liz Jones
Photo Liz Jones
Early fountains depended on the natural gravitational flow of water, from a spring or aqueduct supplied by a distant and higher source of water, which provided hydraulic head.
Reciprocating motion was first described in 1206 by Iraqi engineer and inventor al-Jazari when the kings of the Artuqid dynasty in Turkey commissioned him to manufacture a machine to raise water for their palaces. The most superb result was an machine called the double-acting reciprocating piston pump, which translated rotary motion to reciprocating motion via the crankshaft-connecting rod mechanism.
Other early fountains were geometrically regularized springs, developed in the classic Persian garden. These gardens were typically enclosed and were designed to provide relaxation. The effect of sunlight was the main concern regarding the structural aspect of the Persian garden design, so shapes and textures were specifically chosen for their ability to direct sunlight.
Fountain in Houston, Texas. Photo Michael Mx5tx
Lima, Peru. Photo Martintoy
One of the two fountains in a St. Peter’s square in Rome. Photo Dimitry B
In the 16th century elaborate fountain displays were garden features of Mannerist gardens of Central Italy and the Mughal gardens of India.
In ancient Greece columnar shrines were built over springs and dedicated to deities or nymphs. In ancient Rome fountains fed by the great aqueduct system furnished water in the streets, in the villa gardens, and in town houses. While there were few public fountains in the Middle Ages, a number of beautiful examples remain, particularly in Italy, where splendid Renaissance fountains depicting the full artistic energy of the period are found even in the smallest village square.
The Romans marked the delivery end of aqueducts with a public fountain, when the restored Aqua Felice delivered a symbolic presentation of its waters to Rome in the original Trevi Fountain. It has since been replaced by the familiar Baroque fusion of water, architecture and sculpture. Supplying water through conduits to multiple fountains, such as the Palace of Versailles, was an important feat.
Santiago, Chile. Photo Individuo
Lima, Peru. Photo Martintoy
Lima, Peru. Photo Martintoy
WWII memorial fountain. Photo Gavdana
The development of the great 16th- and 17th-century villas, with their hillside gardens and natural water sources inspired incredible ingenuity in water decoration. In the Villa d’Este at Tivoli and the villas at Frascati near Rome, the various disposals of water established a fundamental element of the garden composition. In France the gardens of the palace of Versailles, designed by Le Nôtre, incorporated a vast scheme of water adornment with elaborate sculptures. The supply, held in a reservoir at Marly, was raised 500 feet (152 meters) above the Seine by machinery.
A theatrical trend of the baroque period found expression in fountains with animated postures of sculptured nymphs, sea horses, and dolphins, the water splashing over the rims of the uppermost bowls which cascaded upon artificial rocks and shells.
Paseo de Buen Pastor. Photo Alicia Nijdam
Photo Darwin Bell
Water show on Jinji Lake, the largest interior lake in China. Photo Tinali
An enormous figure of Neptune was a favorite motif, as in famous examples at Florence, Bologna, and Rome, such as Bernini’s fountain with a sculpture of Neptune in Rome. He also planned the splendidly simple fountains in St. Peter’s Square and the dramatic fountains in the Piazza Navona.
In Middle Eastern cities the public fountains are completely enclosed within structures richly finished in marble and ceramics, with numerous examples in Istanbul, Cairo, and Damascus. The modern public drinking fountain is typically strictly utilitarian in design in the West, but American architects and landscape artists are encouraging the use of the ornamental fountains with positive success.
A mini-version of all of the major landmarks in Rome, built so that the Pope
could sit up here and keep watch on the city. Photo Ingorrr
“Angel of the Waters,” more commonly called Bethesda Fountain
by sculptor Emma Stebbins. Photo Dan4th
Les Fontaines de bronze au Monument aux Girondins. Photo Bestfor
Photo Bestfor
Wrangel fountain in Berlin Kreuzberg. The fountain was designed 1871 by Hugo Hagen,
built 1877 and moved to its recent location 1902. Photo Extranoise
Lady represents the river “Elbe” as one of 4 figures on the Wrangel fountain.
Photo Extranoise
Fountain at Parque los Caobos. Photo XirannisX en Off
J.C. Nichols Fountain by Henri-Léon Gréber (1910), in Kansas City, Missouri. The 4
cast bronze equestrian figures represent 4 great rivers of the world –
the Rhine, the Seine, the Volga and the Mississippi. Photo Charvex
Neptune Fountain, Kansas City, Missouri. Photo Charvex
Fountain in Villa Borghese, Rome. Photo Carlo Gossini
Water clock in Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy. Photo Paul Vlaar
Wall fountain. Photo Architopher
Animated fountain in front of the Brooklyn Museum consists of laminar flow water jets.
Photo Steve Mann
Decorative fountain in a central square in Vejer de la Frontera, Spain.
Photo Hassocks
Fountain shower scene at The Seattle Center during the Bumbershoot Festival.
Photo LaserGuided
This boat in the Rometta fountain represents the Tiber Island. Photo Antmoose
Fontaine Park Darcy in Dijon. Photo ComputerHotline
Fountain of Neptune. Photo Vanhoy
Fountain at Point State Park where the 3 rivers meet in downtown Pittsburgh.
Photo J Murawski
Spinning Fountain in Fussen. Photo Adorenomis
Modern Fountain is a sculpture fountain opposite to Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche.
Photo Matcrazy1
Waterfalls and fountains at the Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, run for 322 feet (98 meters) on the embankment overlooking right-center are on display before and after the game and in-between innings, while the waterfalls are constantly flowing. Photo Randy D
Famous Traditional Fountains
Trevi Fountain in Rome. Photo Diliff
Fontana di Trevi, Rome. Photo Rayced
St. Peter’s Square Fountain – Wind & Water. Photo David Paul Ohmer
Buckingham Fountain
Swann Memorial Fountain in Logan Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Photo Specialkrb
Swann Memorial Fountain, Schuylkill Girl. Photo Ken Thomas
Swann Memorial Fountain, the Delaware River Brave. Photo PVSBond
Fountains of Caserta Palace in southern Italy. Photo Stanley Goodspeed
The Cascade House in the gardens of Chatsworth House, Derbyshire.
Photo Tim Whaley
The Cascade from below. Photo David Benbennick
Peterhof and its Grand Cascade. Photo Tokugawapants
Grand Cascade, Samson and the Lion, by Mikhail Kozlovsky.
Staircase fountain of the Grand Cascade. Photo Mike Martin
Grove Baths of Apollo at the Chateau de Versailles. Photo Koakoo
Apollo, gardens of Versailles.
South Africa House, Trafalgar Square, London. East Fountain by William McMillan 1948.
Photo James F
Trafalgar Square fountain, Photo Infraredhorsebite
Fountain of the Triton, in Piazza Barberini square, by Gianlorenzo Bernini, Rome.
Photo MM
Magic Fountain of Montjuic, Barcelona, Spain
Amazing Water Writing Fountain in Canal City of Japan
Bellagio Fountain Show Las Vegas
Canal City Musical Water Fountain
Source: Wikipedia
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As usual those photos are absolutely remarkable. I saw the Trevi fountain in Rome the other year and it was packed with tourists, but I got a few good photos by it.
check out this fountain too:
http://www.c-tobin.de/vita_e/jahre_e/Bilder_e/Fussen_e/fussen_e.htm
it kinda rotates:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXhwdo7vzX4
Woonderful serie of photos, but now i am thirsty!
Intriguing indeed! Fascinating fountains compilation! It’s a must-have for every self-respecting city that wants to attract more and more tourists.
I have always loved a fountain at Disney’s Epcot Center in Florida — on a flat plaza, there are about 20 small holes in the stones. Randomly, a brief squirt of water will fly out of one hole to disappear in another. Cool.
Truely remarkable..Those pics are great…Thanks for sharing it.
Absolutely stunning pictures, some of these places could be really romantic places to get married.
Thanks for sharing!
Wow, they are really amazing. I think you have missed to mention The Magic Fountain of Montjuic in Barcelona, One of most famous for sure..
The Trevi fountain in Rome would be spectacular to see in person, Paul
No doubt you managed to get some incredible photos, one would be hard pressed not to.
Thanks Wavy, I would need to request permission to use any image from the first link, but I can definitely get something from video for the second one
Hehe, cute Jarod
It sounds cool, Jon. I didn’t run across any images on that particular fountain.
Thanks for pointing it out, Judit, I’ll see what I can find on it
What nice images.They look very impressive.Thanks for these beautiful views.
You should have included the Modern Fountain in Central Berlin next to the Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche monument. It is amazing.
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You have got to be the most cultured/ traveled man I know. Amazing shots. I was breath taken. Clearly I’m jealous.
Great series of photos. I would have like to have seen the fountain in the outfield of Kauffman Stadium where the Kansas City Royals play. It’s truly unique.
The swarskoi crystal factory photo is my favorite. I would totally go and see that if I was down there.
Amazing, just simply amazing
I wish I have one in my own town..
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Tim, the Modern Fountain in Central Berlin was not easy to locate an image for, but I did manage to find one while it wasn’t in operation.
Paulo, I’m sorry to say my searches were fruitless for the fountain you mentioned.
Ryan, finding an image of the fountain itself at the Kauffman Stadium was not an easy task, but I did find a lovely one taken during sunset.
Cohnsey, that’s one of my favorites as well, which is why it was the featured image
these are really nice photos of fountains. i also like taking pictures of fountains, but the ones i’ve had the chance to take shots are not this awesome.
How GLORIOUS this is! A whole thing on fountains.. I LOVE IT!!
Yet another amazing article. This is a real tribute to the fountain – I wish I had your attention to detail and such!
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I saw the photo face fountains when I was in Chicago. They’re awesome- constantly changing photograph compilations of photos of the people of Chicago. Way cool.
I still want to kick myself every time I think about having been in Chicago and not thinking so see their famous water fountain. Duh! What was I thinking????
Hey there, Nice to see this website, Im really pleased you choose my fountain pics, please feel free to drop some comments on it.
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The frog’s fountain is the coolest
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I like the frog and the organ fountain. Living in Chicago I’m not exactly enthralled with the Crown fountain. At least, not yet.
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I like the first one as it has more facial character.
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Great post. I really want to find a fountain I can play nowadays. I think that would be really cool. Hopefully when I am older I can have my own fountain with a statue of me doing something awesome.
The fountains are really amazing and i have enjoyed by watching those pictures!Moreever i like Untermeyer fountain!
Thank you!
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Wow! Just about the only thing i can say. Amazing!
Why is it that all the fountains with faces look like they’re vomiting?
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Loved Children’s Fountain very much,excellent creation.
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what a beautiful collection!!! all fountains have same speciallity water comming out of the mouth. i love specially Untermeyer fountain. this is just great.
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They’re gorgeous! and the gently flowing waters from fountains bring tranquility and serenity to the places one spend their time.
Nice pics, I hope I can visit all of them someday.
And I will take a shot too of course with myself..
I loved each and every single fountains as each of them have some specialty,thanks for sharing the amazing pictures.
world’s most bizarre water fountains and you didn’t include the $15 million atrocity placed under the brooklyn bridge, right in the middle of the east river?? http://noticethings.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/nyc-waterfalls/
Thanks for sharing these beautiful pics
It is obvious that it took great care and passion to create this post. What a wonderful collection, please don’t stop!
Jayson
AWESOME collection of fountains…this makes me want to travel all over just to see this stuff in real life. The Crown Fountain in Chicago is freakin’ amazing. And the King Fahd fountain…it can shoot water over 1000 feet in the air??? That’s an Empire State Building worth of height!!!
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where is the dubai fountain???
look it up…. the biggest fountain in the world…. youtube it
thats amazing!!!
That 1st spring is ridiculous! I’ve never seen anything like that before. I want to see it in person.
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That 1st spring is crazy! I wish I could see something like that in person. Maybe drop drawer and throw myself in and ask the fountain gods for forgiveness!
Haha
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These are some sweet fountains. Nothing is more peaceful and stress reliving than sitting by a fountain. We use to have one in our yard and I always regret taking it out.