Funtana Manna

You walk through the narrow streets of the historic center, among agro-pastoral houses, and you arrive here. Funtana Manna appears as a lived-in place, concrete and grounded. It is the complex built in 1865, with a fountain and three basins. The first two were used for washing, hands plunged into the water, clothes beaten against stone. The third is separate, intended for animals, fed by an independent spring that still flows today from four mouths. The areas are distinct. On one side, the fountain and the washbasin. On the other, the drinking troughs, where public baths once stood. Beneath your feet, you feel the cobbled surface, basalt, trachyte and limestone pebbles. Here, water was not decoration. It served a purpose. And around that necessity, the life of the village took shape.