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Piazza della Vittoria includes the 2 squares that in 1600 were called "the square of the nobles", or urban, with the seat and the clock tower, both demolished, and the square of the populace, or rustic, where was the market for edibles.
In the summers of 1617 and 1618 erupted in Brindisi that made many victims of epidemics, especially among the Spanish officers and soldiers who were stationed here. Citizens were forced to fetch water from the tower of St. George (almost completely demolished in 1865, during the construction of the railway station and the square in front), which was crossed by the ancient aqueduct, and even the big fountain. The governor of the city, warden of the island and the fort to the sea, was Captain Pedro Aloysio de Torres, Spanish high capacity and humanity as well as very resolute.
To conduct water to the citizens, decided to build three fountains in the town, and charge the cost to wealthy citizens, in proportion to the possibilities of each, setting their houses on the walls of the amounts payable on the basis of fees payable the workers. From the "Bastion de agua," as the Spaniards called the tower of St. George, from which in earlier centuries the precious liquid had been lost through the groundwater in the countryside or at sea, the water was brought in specially built three fountains: one, that of Chrysostom, was in the corner of a precautionary measure, then extreme limit of dwelling and another near the harbor, near Port Royal disappeared (gardens of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele), also targeting the soldiers of the Spanish galleons that were in port, and the third - the most important because most central - in the piazza of the people in those times square.
The fountain consists of a large marble basin which collects water gushing from a beautiful tank top smaller, also of marble, much like a baptismal font in more ancient times, there was an inscription in memory of the government Torres had been the supporter of King Philip III of Spain (1578-1621), and Pedro Tellez-Giron y Guzman, Duke of Osuna (1574-1624), who was the first Spanish viceroy of Sicily and, from 1616 , Viceroy of Naples (convicted of conspiracy, was recalled and imprisoned, died in prison).
The inscription also recalled the damage caused by the Norman William the Bad (1120-1166), and emphasizes the important detail that the work related to the refurbishment of the existing ducts Romans.
PETRO Aloys De Torres PRAETORIA: QVOD ROMANOS EMVLATUS AVTHORITATE ET INDVSTRIA SUA / PHILIPPI TERTIA REGIS ET PETRI GIRONIS DVCIS OSSVNAE / PROREGIS AVSPICIIS AC CIVIVM LABOR ET POSSIBLE TO ENVISAGE AQVARUM DVCTVS TEMPORVM ET MALI GVLIELMI INIVRIA DESTRVCTOS RESTITVERIT / ATQVE REPVRGATO FUNICVLO VETER ET INSTAVRATO FORNICI NOVOS ADSTRUXERIT / AC SINVOSO TRACTV FOR TVBOS FISTVLAS ET SALIENTES IN VRBE PERTRAXERIT / ORDO POPVLVSQVE BRVNDVSINVS PART COMMODITATIS ET ORNAMENTS MEMOR ET GRATVS POST ANNVM SALVTIS MDCXVIII.
In March 1715 the fountain de Torres, for lack of maintenance, did not give more water, the fountain of Chrysostom or conservation stopped two months later. Mayor Stanislaus Monticelli repaired it October 26, 1715.
In the summers of 1617 and 1618 erupted in Brindisi that made many victims of epidemics, especially among the Spanish officers and soldiers who were stationed here. Citizens were forced to fetch water from the tower of St. George (almost completely demolished in 1865, during the construction of the railway station and the square in front), which was crossed by the ancient aqueduct, and even the big fountain. The governor of the city, warden of the island and the fort to the sea, was Captain Pedro Aloysio de Torres, Spanish high capacity and humanity as well as very resolute.
To conduct water to the citizens, decided to build three fountains in the town, and charge the cost to wealthy citizens, in proportion to the possibilities of each, setting their houses on the walls of the amounts payable on the basis of fees payable the workers. From the "Bastion de agua," as the Spaniards called the tower of St. George, from which in earlier centuries the precious liquid had been lost through the groundwater in the countryside or at sea, the water was brought in specially built three fountains: one, that of Chrysostom, was in the corner of a precautionary measure, then extreme limit of dwelling and another near the harbor, near Port Royal disappeared (gardens of Piazza Vittorio Emanuele), also targeting the soldiers of the Spanish galleons that were in port, and the third - the most important because most central - in the piazza of the people in those times square.
The fountain consists of a large marble basin which collects water gushing from a beautiful tank top smaller, also of marble, much like a baptismal font in more ancient times, there was an inscription in memory of the government Torres had been the supporter of King Philip III of Spain (1578-1621), and Pedro Tellez-Giron y Guzman, Duke of Osuna (1574-1624), who was the first Spanish viceroy of Sicily and, from 1616 , Viceroy of Naples (convicted of conspiracy, was recalled and imprisoned, died in prison).
The inscription also recalled the damage caused by the Norman William the Bad (1120-1166), and emphasizes the important detail that the work related to the refurbishment of the existing ducts Romans.
PETRO Aloys De Torres PRAETORIA: QVOD ROMANOS EMVLATUS AVTHORITATE ET INDVSTRIA SUA / PHILIPPI TERTIA REGIS ET PETRI GIRONIS DVCIS OSSVNAE / PROREGIS AVSPICIIS AC CIVIVM LABOR ET POSSIBLE TO ENVISAGE AQVARUM DVCTVS TEMPORVM ET MALI GVLIELMI INIVRIA DESTRVCTOS RESTITVERIT / ATQVE REPVRGATO FUNICVLO VETER ET INSTAVRATO FORNICI NOVOS ADSTRUXERIT / AC SINVOSO TRACTV FOR TVBOS FISTVLAS ET SALIENTES IN VRBE PERTRAXERIT / ORDO POPVLVSQVE BRVNDVSINVS PART COMMODITATIS ET ORNAMENTS MEMOR ET GRATVS POST ANNVM SALVTIS MDCXVIII.
In March 1715 the fountain de Torres, for lack of maintenance, did not give more water, the fountain of Chrysostom or conservation stopped two months later. Mayor Stanislaus Monticelli repaired it October 26, 1715.