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In the heart of the village of Triora we find the Soprana Fountain, certainly the oldest and most important in the village. This fountain, with its simple but pleasant aesthetics, truly speaks to us of a world that no longer exists. Nowadays we are all used to having running water in our homes just by turning on a tap, and this is a great achievement of civilisation. But this was not the case in ancient peasant civilisation. Actually, it is the 20th century that brings water into the home. Before, the method was quite different and... much less practical. You came here, got your supplies, and then carried the water into the house. For washing, for cooking, and for all other uses. So think of the indispensable civil and social function that these structures fulfilled. A fundamental function, just as water is fundamental for survival, but from the point of view of the common good. Common was the care and maintenance of this primary good. Today, the value of water has once again become central to civil and political debate, thanks to renewed environmentalist awareness. This is why there is a great recovery of those values, of water as a superior collective good to be preserved, which this fountain, from the past, represents.

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