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Piazza dei Signori, Treviso

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Piazza dei Signori is a city square in Treviso, north-eastern Italy. It takes its name (meaning "Lords Square" in Italian) from the palaces of lords the former seignory of Treviso which face it. They include: Palazzo del Podestà with the Civic tower (13th century), which was the lordship's seat Palazzo dei Trecento Palazzo Pretorio (with a 17th century façade) Original seat of the Municipal Library and the Municipal Gallery (1847)The Square also features several sculptures of Lion of Saint Mark, a symbol of the former domination of the Republic of Venice on Treviso.

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Piazza dei Signori, Treviso
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Piazza dei Signori 27
31100 Treviso, San Zeno
Veneto, Italy
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Fontana Delle Tette
Fontana Delle Tette

The Fountana de łe tete is an old fountain in Treviso, Italy. Under the Venetian Republic it poured white and red wine during special celebrations. The name translates into English as "The Fountain of Tits" and is usually translated in Italian as "Fontana delle tette". It features a topless woman squeezing her breasts and water (representing breast milk) coming out of her nipples. The Fontana de łe tete was built in 1559 on the orders of Alvise Da Ponte, at the time mayor of the Republic of Venice, as a result of a severe drought that struck the city of Treviso and the surrounding countryside. Originally the statue was placed inside the Praetorian Palace, in via Calmaggiore. In the autumn of every year of the autumn in honor of every new Podesta, red wine flowed from the nipple of one breast, and white wine from nipple of the other breast, and all citizens could drink the wine for free for three days. There is a plaque near the fountain that says: Located at the beginning of Calmaggiore street and so has described her Matteo Sernagiotto (1810-1888): ... lovely lady over the marble basin marina with both hands was squeezing her swollen breasts, and two living fountains of crystal clear water, thanks to industrious contraption with wheels, removed to the nearby Cagnano, offering plenty of liquor houses and shops nearby. Alvise Da Ponte judge, following an extraordinary drought, built in 1559, and from that time until the fall of the Venetian republic, every year for three consecutive days, to celebrate the entry of a new mayor, the fountain poured from one Stern undiluted white wine, black and the other, for the joy of the people cheering ... It was rebuilt in 1989.