Fontana di Piazza a Bardalone

It stands in the centre of the church square, and consists of a large circular basin installed on a moulded base resting on three steps, still circular and concentric, from which a square-based obelisk rises. We are faced with the isolated typology in the centre of a space and with a round basin, a shape that often shows Arab influences, in this case created in imitation of the fountain in the square of Gavinana, a much older model, from which the structure located in the Piazza della Chiesa in San Marcello, its twin, also descends. The fountains of San Marcello and Bardalone are both dated 1904, as is engraved on the marble plaques affixed to the obelisks; they differ from the one in Gavinana certainly for a lesser richness of the base and here in Bardalone the central pinnacle is wider, squat and simpler than the model, with only two mouths instead of four. Locality Bardalone