The Montuzza Fountain

The fountain, above the Sandrinelli Gallery with the Scala dei Giganti, was built in 1938 by the Buttonaz and Ziffer company on a project by the municipal technical office and on a design by Eng. Vittorio Privileggi, on the occasion of the Duce's visit to Trieste.
The structure develops on a circular basin with an external radius of 6.50 meters, with a bottom covered in polished concrete grit, and a central body with a pentagonal obelisk with constructions, made of reinforced concrete and covered with slabs of Orsera marble.
At the base of the obelisk there is a second pool, concentric to the first, from which five illuminated waterfalls descend and flow into the main pool. Destined to have a short life (it should have been dismantled at the end of the celebrations), it survived inoperative the Second World War and subsequent post-war events.
The last functional restoration was in 2006, while previously it dates back to the early 1970s.