Isernia's central Piazza Celestino V holds this arcaded public fountain, a six-jet monument that reads almost like a small loggia rather than a simple water source, assembled in 1835 by the noble Rampini family out of Romanesque round arches, polygonal columns and reused Roman-era tombstones and stonework.
Its lower basin fuses fragments from three older fountains around town. An Allied bombing raid on September 10, 1943, that flattened much of Isernia dismantled the fountain too, but it was rebuilt afterward stone by stone in its original form, and it remains the town's clearest emblem, mysterious enough in its patchwork origins that historians still debate exactly which pieces came from where.
