Italian town unveils a WINE fountain where visitors can drink for free 24 hours a day.
Locally-produced wine will flow from the fountain in Abruzzo, the first of its kind, and it’s accessible 24/7.
The best part? It’s completely free to help yourself to a glass.
he wine fountain is a welcome, the wine fountain is poetry,” the Dora Sarchese vineyard wrote on its Facebook page.
It noted that the fountain was not a place for “drunkards” or “louts”, nor was it a “publicity stunt”.
Thousands of pilgrims and tourists make the journey from Rome to Ortona, in order to visit the city’s cathedral where the remains of Thomas, one of Jesus’ disciples, are kept. The new fountain is a joint project of the vineyard and the non-profit organization which maintains and promoted the pilgrimage route.
Inspiration came from a similar red wine fountain installed along the Spanish pilgrimage route, the Camino de Santiago, a few years ago.
Tourists watch red wine flow from the fountain. Photo: Dora Sarchese Vineyard
The Ortona fountain is not the first in Italy to offer wine, but its creators describe it as the country’s first ‘proper’ wine fountain, because the wine will be accessible every day.