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The fountain called "The Suspended Carpet" is situated in the square dedicated to the saltworkers, beyond Ponte delle Paratoie in Cervia.
"This carpet, immovable in its flight, should bring to mind the heaps of salt and the cane-breakes with their birds which once filled these places with poetry. ... The world of the salt civilasation with its pain and poetry is flying from us."
Tonino Guerra
The fountain dates back to 9th Nov. 1997, thus it is the most recent monument in the town.
Its unveiling coincided with the anniversary of the pubblication of Pope Innocent's XII chirograph, which 300 years before allowed Cervia's people to move from the Old to the New Town, in the present location.
This fountain was designed by Tonino Guerra and realized by the mosaicist Marco Bravura, it looks like a large mosaic carpet, made of marble and glass paste, on which stand two salt heaps made of crystal and marble.
A special water-game under the carpet creates a cloud-effect on which it seems to lay, while the water pool below is surrounded by cobblestones which recall the landscape of a past time, together with an aromatic herb garden and a reed-thicket, partly real, partly made of copper and ceramic, which represent the watershed between the past and the present, memories and reality.
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