Sasso Mobile

Once you pass the tram tracks, you find, as people have long found, the old village fountain, which is accessed by descending a few winding steps, since it is located below street level. Below the stone inscribed with the Municipal symbol and the words: \"1886 - il Comune per il popolo\" (the Town for the People), water spouts from a mascaron embedded in a circular brick wall. It was that “People” who, in 1884, due to the grave shortage of well water that year, signed a petition and delivered it to the administrative offices of the Province of Bologna, demanding that a solution be found. The 7th of August that same year, the Municipality of Casalecchio approved an agreement with the military engineers to lay pipes to carry water from state property to the point where the old fountain was to be built. Today the fountain is dry. Hardly anyone goes down that short staircase anymore, but when it was opened and for many subsequent years, it was always crowded with people fetching water to cool off or quench their thirst.