Priouli Fountain
Renaissance fountain with Corinthian columns, dug for water during a twenty-one-year siege and later Ottoman-inscribed.
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This guide to the Priouli Fountain in Heraklion opens in 1666, eighteen years into the longest siege Europe had seen, when the besieging army cuts the aqueduct that fed the city from Mount Youchtas and the main fountain runs dry. It follows the Venetian general Antonio Priuli's stubborn response, ordering men to dig in the defensive ditch by the Bethlehem Bastion in search of any hidden vein of water still trapped within the walls. Look for the carved columns and pediment he raised over whatever they found.
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