“L'altalena” (The Swing) by Nereo Cagliato, 1984
aka “Fontana dei bambini” (Children's fountain)
Stradella dei Tre Scalini
Vicenza, May 2025
“The Children's Fountain, next to the Post Office, is certainly nice, but nothing more. It was built in 1984 based on a design by the architect Vittorio Veller thanks to funding from some citizens and donated to the Municipality in exchange for authorization to open windows on the front of the building behind. Restored and reactivated in July 2020, it is already dry. Quagliato's bronze sculpture softens the fountain, but the low system of communicating basins that underlies it lacks any monumentality. A vertical structure with a wall-mounted water jet would have been much more suitable in the same place. It would at least distract the gaze from the looming red and white mass of the Royal Post and Telegraph building” (Quattro fontane in tutto, ViPiù)
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