Fontana del Nettuno or dei Cavalli

The fountain is located a few meters from Porta Dante, at the intersection of Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, Via Marconi, Via Calvi and Via Cavour. It is an artifact inaugurated in 1838, for the occasion of the passage through Conegliano by Ferdinand I of Austria. The public source already existed in 1337, erected by the Veronese Filippo Spongadi in piazzetta XVIII July, and restored in the sixteenth century. Once the water source that fed the Brentazzo was depleted, the fountain was transported where it is today, at the intersection of Cavour and Marconi, at the foot of a lacerto di mura, and fed from the Sorbolera spring. The small obelisk that surmounted it was replaced in 1770 with the current Neptune, recovered from Villa Foscolo in Oderzo. On a large shell drawn by two large seahorses from which the water comes out, stands the god Neptune facing east and gripping the trident with his right hand. It was the only artifact in the area to emerge unscathed from the bombings of 1917-18.