Onofrio's water supply and fountains of Dubrovnik
Acueducto y fuentes de Onofrio de Dubrovnik
- Date
- 1438-1444 · confidence high
- Place
- Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Credited to
- Onofrio della Cava, a Neapolitan engineer in Ragusan service
- People
- 👤 Onofrio della Cava
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What it is
A gravity-fed conduit that brings water from the Šumet spring, about 12 km away, to the city and its monumental fountains. It solved Dubrovnik's supply with a public network that worked for centuries.
The conduit was completed around 1438 and the fountains (the large one, with 16 spouts, and the small one) in 1444; Onofrio's great fountain was badly damaged in the 1667 earthquake and partly rebuilt.
What it led to
- public water supply and free fountains
- a model of municipal hydraulic engineering in the Mediterranean