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Annecy
Haute-Savoie
Rhône-Alpes

Place Notre-Dame

Fontaine aux lions et tortues

Fountain with Lions and Turtles

Victor Bassotti
Galasse (Annecy)
1859

Description

Granite obelisk (5 m high), standing on four cast iron turtles on a square base with sitting lions on the corners. From the lions' mouths water is spouting into a basin. The fountain is constructed by the town architect Ignace Monnet, and sculpted by Victor Bassotti.

Inscription(s)

les fontaines
de la ville
d'annecy
ont ete erigees
sous l'edilite
de monsieur
aimé-antoine
levet

On the other side the year 1859.

Sculptor

Victor Bassotti, French sculptor.

Sources & Information

e-Monumen.net, Fontaine - Place Notre-Dame - Annecy.
Fontaines de France.

Locatie (N 45°54'0" - E 6°7'33") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra021; Photograph: 6 June 2013
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