Behind the logo "Fountains of Abruzzi" lies the graphic resaearch-work of the painter Lucio Diodati. The fountains are rapresented in their architectonic solemnity and water, like in ancient times, is regarded as sacred. Up to the first half of the century, public fountains were the source of water supply for the inhabitants of towns and villages alike, a place for refreshment for wayfarers, merchants and pilgrims and trough for animals. The pride of many a town, such constructions have sometimes assumed all the features of monument, others-most of the times as a matter of fact-were the lively expressions of ispired craftsmen and fashionable meeting places.
	Lucio Diodati's engravings give us back all this: fountains, troughs, basins, water jets bring back to memory a world and a society which have gone through a deep transformation over the last decades. They are also meant to be an invitation to safeguard this precious testimony and regain possession of it: listen again to the gurgling of water, savour it...and realize that what makes our fountains unique is the extraordinary natural and urban setting they are part of.
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