Fountain at the Tasso Oak

The fountain, designed by architect Emanuele Cito Filomarino, is one of the winning designs of a 1928 competition announced among Italian artists residing in Rome to build ten artistic fountains - inaugurated on October 28, 1929 - in different areas of the city, to replace the cast iron ones.

The new artistic fountain designed for the Janiculum was placed beneath "Tasso's oak tree". The verse engraved on the back of the fountain is from the 15th canto of the "Gerusalemme Liberata" ("Jerusalem Freed") the writer's famous poem. The fountain is surmounted by a modern, ribbed sarcophagus with two lion heads inscribed at the ends of the front, resting on two curvilinear moldings; higher up, on the left, is a decorative travertine vase, set on a peperino stone base.