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Friday, August 25, 2017

Wine Fountain In Italy - Where Is It And How Will I Remember?

Fontana De Tette, Treviso, Italy - Tountain of Tits. Photo from Wikipedia.

Museum of Treviso, Italy. Map from Wikipedia.

If you want to buy a wine fountain for a party you can buy one on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Costway-Illuminating-Cocktail-Fountain-Waterfall
Key words: wine ; fountain

But the free fun for the summer is drinking wine for free from a wine fountain in Italy.

Problem
A wine fountain. Wonderful. Where? How do I remember the names of places I haven't yet visited but am now putting on my wish list?

Answers
First simplify the list of places:

Inspiration for this wine fountain was one previously installed on the saint's route or route to the saint's remains
Camino de Santiago in Spain, some years ago.
Spain, Santiago, Camino de Santiago -
Sant is Saint,
Iago is I for J, Jacob or James

How do I remember that de is Spanish for of, but di is Italian for of?
Espana is Spanish for Spain. Italy starts with the letter I.

From Wikipedia:
Santiago (name) Santiago, (also San Iago, San TiagoSantyagoSant-Yago, San Thiago) is a Spanish name that derives from the Hebrew name Jacob (Ya'akov) via "Sant Iago", "Sant Yago", "Santo Iago", or "Santo Yago", first used to denote Saint James the Great, the brother of John the Apostle.

Santiago (name) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_(name)

Camino is a carriageway or road, spelling similar to the French word camion for lorry. 

The remains of James or IAgo are in SpAIn.

Italy TOo has remains.
The remains of ThOmAs are in ItAly.
Doubting Thomas?

The remains of Thomas are in a Cathedral in Ortona.
ThOmAs in OrTOnA.

Pilgrims travel from Rome to Ortona.
ROme to ORtona.



The road is called 
CAMMINO DI SAN TOMMASO.
Two lots of double MM. 
The Italians do like double letters. Double MM twice. Another double letter in the town of ABRUZZO. where the fountain is found.

Fontana del vino. 
Fountain of wine.
Italian is such an easy language if your first language is English.

Which Street?
Caldari di Ortona.



Who has given or DOnated the wine?
Dora Sarchese vineyard.
DOra Sarchese vineyard DOnated the wine.





















Tips
To learn Italian for free, spend five minutes a day on the Internet:
www.duolingo.com

Summary of places to visit
SPAIN
1 Camino de Santiago, Spain.

ITALY
1 Cammino di San Tommaso. (Way of St Thomas.)
2 Fontana del Vino, Caldari di Ortona, Abruzzo, Italy. (Fountain of Wine, in Abruzzo) Italy.)
3 Museum of Treviso, Italy.  See sculpture of fountain from 1500s. 





More information from:
http://www.decanter.com/wine-news/24-hour-red-wine-fountain-opens-italy-335190/
https://www.thelocal.it/20161012/the-first-wine-fountain-just-opened-in-italy-and-its-free
https://www.facebook.com/StThomas-Way-Caminoen-Camino-Italy-Italien-
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Fontana_Delle_Tette (Fountain of tits)





Author, Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher of English and foreign languages. See my other posts on learning and remembering Italian words and seeing Perugia and Umbria which I visited in 2017. Please share links to your favourite posts.



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