Seventy-six is 'a funtana, the fountain. Not an ornament: the public fountain where a household without plumbing fetched its water and heard everything worth hearing.
Naples built a great many of them, and the monumental survivors (the Fontana del Nettuno, the Immacolatella, the Fontana di Santa Lucia) are only the ones that got sculptors.
- 76
- 'A funtana
- the fountain
- Row 71–80 of the tabellone
Where the figure comes from
Unrecorded.
Other things filed on 76
In Neapolitan life
The fountain, the balcony at 43 and the shop at 86 are the board's three places where news moved. A dream list assembled in a dense city is going to be full of the spots where people met, and this one is.
76 in the smorfia — frequently asked
Any of them. The figure is the public fountain as an institution rather than a named monument.
With the balcony at 43 and the shop at 86. Those are the three places on the board where news travelled.