Surbù is the name given by the people of Stezzano to the old fountain by the city’s church.
Built quite in a rush in 1838 to celebrate the crowning of the Lombard-Venetian king Ferdinand I who would visit the small town next to Bergamo, the stone monument is composed of a pyramid leaning on four metal spheres.
In the past women made the best of the bizarre construction by doing their laundry on it, and after being interrupted the recent restoration reactivated the piping: the Surbù is a fountain again and the people of Stezzano can drink… from a pyramid.
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