The Bacchus Fountain is located in the Piazza del Comune of Prato, Tuscany, and is one of the symbols of the city. It was built between 1659 and 1665 by the sculptor Ferdinando Tacca, to remember the historical moment in which Prato was proclaimed indipendent city and diocese.
The bronze statue that dominates the fountain depicts a young Bacchus, sitting around bunches of grapes: probably, his youth and his euphoric appearance had to reflect the euphoria and the renewal of the city. The shape of the monument is very simple: from various points come out jets of water that descend into an intermediate basin shaped like a shell and then into a larger octagonal tank, from which some torches convey the water into semi-circular trays. The basin and sculpture in the Piazza are twentieth-century copies of the original preserved inside the Palazzo Comunale.
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