The Boy on the Amenano Fountain
It wasn’t the best of luck when I took this photo of the Amenano Fountain in Catania, Sicily. There was something missing of the statue of the boy standing on the fountain. It was taken about a year ago so I hope they have fixed it by now, nevertheless found the missing arm or found the one who broke the arm. It’s annoying when some people do nothing but destroy historical public eye-catchers like this fountain.
Amenano Fountain serves to adorn the entrance to the fish market, Pescheria. The boy is standing between the two tritons (mythological Greek gods) pouring water in the fountain’s basin.
It wasn’t until today that I found out there was missing in my photo. I was searching for the name of the fountain and found some informations with images of it. Then I saw that the boy’s arm in my photo was missing. Tsk!
Category: Travelogue
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Marlene is a teacher by profession holding a degree of Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education. She works as a Mother Language Teacher in Sweden. She is a Filipina married to a Swede. She has been blogging since 2007 and she and her hubby own quite a number of websites.
Like this very much…
As I also feel angry for such folks who just simply destroy such monuments just for nothing as they feel its just a stone while for folks like us find the whole history from it.
Anyway thanks a lot for this.
Thank you…the world is just full of people with unkind thoughts. Kind of hard to stop it.
Great photo like always, keep it up
I agree. It is very disheartening to see age-old architecture vandalized. It is the only preservation of history and culture and needs to be protected carefully. Still a very beautiful work of a art for sure.
-Jean
And it’s not that easy for the authorities to apprehend these people. Too bad, indeed.
That is just unacceptable you would think it would have been fixed by now. What a shame to have the fountain tarnished.
I really wish it’s fixed already. It looks awful with an incomplet hand.