People don’t only call it the Palazzo dell’Acqua because the palace was built to celebrate the first water sprout brought from the Campania region to the fountain in Piazza Umberto in 1915.
The construction made of white limestone from the nearby Trani is a jewel made to celebrate the most precious of all liquids: water is present in the marble parts, the decorations of the door handles, and the drainpipes crossed by grass snakes (once used to clean the piping); it is in the chandeliers, the interior decorations, and in the Murano glass compositions.
This fascinating and precise task was assigned to the ingenious Roman artist Duilio Cambellotti, commissioned to embellish the image of the structure developing on the theme of water.
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