Devil fountain

Place: Bedogno - Secchiello Bridge Way: The fountain stands along the 8 SP between Villa Minozzo and Costabona.

Appennino Reggiano

Description: Year of building: 1965 but it was restructured in 1992. Design engineer: Ero Paterlini Engineer Executor: the restructuring was made by Prati Servilio, a road supervisor, with his team. Features: it's formed by squared stones placed in files with a cover in monolithic stone on them; it has a rectangular basin closed between two stone benches and a rock wall; the floor is composed by stone slabs and on the left side it is enclosed by a rock finishing little wing, on the right side by an iron grille. Now on the cover, on which short time ago there was a spherical stone with the carved letters AP, there is the inscription: "AUT BIBAS AUT ABEAS". You can translate it literally with "DRINK OR GO AWAY"; the sentence is taken from Cicero's fifth book of the "Tusculanae disputationes". "G. Isnenghi - The fountains on the provincial roads" - Reggio Emilia 1995