The Most Beautiful Fountains, 15
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Blasting it sky high, illuminating it with dazzling lights, surrounding it with classical sculpture
... as the magnificent fountains below illustrate, if you're only using water to drink and do laundry, you're missing out on the fun side of our most precious commodity.
Banpo Moonlight Rainbow Fountain (
Seoul)
The world's longest bridge fountain, Seoul's Banpo Moonlight Rainbow Fountain employs 10,
000 LEDs and 380 water jets that run along both edges of the 1,140-meter (370 feet) bridge.
Lotte World Musical Fountain (
Busan, South Korea)
South Korea is also home to the world's tallest indoor fountain.
It opened in
2010 inside the Gwangbok
Lotte Department Store in
Busan.
Fountain of Wealth (
Singapore)
Named the world's largest fountain by
Guinness World Records in
1998, the Fountain of Wealth can be found outside Singapore's
Suntec City shopping mall.
Crown Fountain (
Chicago)
Chicago's Crown Fountain is one of the most creative fountains anywhere.
It features a black granite reflecting pool positioned between two towers that use LEDs to display digital videos.
Dubai Fountain (
Dubai)
You expect great things from a fountain that sits on a 30-acre lake in front of the world's tallest structure, the
Burj Khalifa. And in the Dubai Fountain, you get them.
Jet d'Eau (
Lake Geneva,
Switzerland)
Geneva's spectacular Jet d'Eau shoots water
140 meters (459 feet) into the sky.
Its creation was actually a mistake. In 1886, a hydraulic power station was built to deliver water from the
Rhone to the city's fountains, households and factories.
Aquanura, Efteling (
Kaatsheuvel,
Netherlands)
The Aquanura fountains at the
Netherlands' historic Efteling theme park were built to celebrate the park's 60th anniversary in
2012.
Longwood Gardens fountains (
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania)
This series of
Pennsylvania fountains was built in 1931.
Within the fountain's various pools are 380 nozzles, while a recirculation system of 18 pumps propel 37,854 liters (10,000 gallons) of water per minute up to 39 meters (130 feet).
Colored lights were later added, and the fountains were fully computerized in
1984.
Scioto Mile
Fountain (
Columbus, Ohio)
Covering
1,393 square meters (15,000 square feet), the Scioto Mile Fountain features five stainless-steel halo structures with 1,
100 fog nozzles and a central halo from which water is shot 22 meters (75 feet) into the air.
Kanazawa Fountain
Clock (
Kanazawa, Japan)
This unique clock sites outside
Japan's Kanazawa train station and is comprised of a series of small fountains set against a black background.
A hi-tech valve system allows the fountain to be programmed to display both numbers and letters in a range of languages.
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- published: 18 Nov 2014
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