Rimondi Fountain

The Rimondi Fountain is situated at the North End of Petychaki square, in the focal point of the old town of Rethymnon. The present wellspring remains on the site of a more established wellspring accepted to have existed since no less than 1588. The Venetian representative J. Rimondi began the reproduction of the present wellspring in 1626. Amid the Venetian Period numerous towns on Crete endured extreme water deficiencies. For most functional needs occupants neutralized this issue by gathering precipitation water in storages or by burrowing wells. In any case, drinking water for the occupants was provided by open wellsprings.

The front of the Rimondi Fountain comprises of 4 little segments which remain on raised bowls. These bowls were utilized as troughs for creatures to drink from. The water keeps running from gushes that are in type of lions' heads. There are three breaks in the wellspring; the focal break is specifically compelling as it has a semi-roundabout nook showing the crown of Rimondi. After Rethymnon tumbled to the Turks in 1646, the wellspring was isolate and domed over for a period; anyway the later Turkish increases either fell into rot or were crushed by neighborhood tenants.

The Rimondi wellspring is the just a single worked amid the Venetian lead, while all others were developed amid the Turkish occupation. When made to help with the town's water deficiency, it these days constitutes a compositional diamond which dazzles our sight and the focal point of our camera.