Sagredo fountain
Venetian relief fountain of a shielded female figure, carved for nobles meeting at a Renaissance clubhouse.
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This guide to the Sagredo fountain in Heraklion goes back to 1602, when Venetian nobles meeting at the nearby Loggia clubhouse had a chronic water problem, prompting Duke Giovanni Sagredo to commission a fountain finished by 1604. It describes the carved relief of a shielded woman thought to represent Crete herself, and the Latin inscription boasting of the duke's care, plus the repurposed ancient sarcophagus that once caught the water. Listen for what a German bomb in the Second World War left standing against the Loggia's north wall.
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