In old days, aqueducts and fountains were the answer to the water supply problem. Today, eight of them survive in Rethymno. The most of them come from Ottoman period, but there is one which dates back in Venetian era.

Rimondi Fountain located at Petichaki square, in the heart of the old town of Rethymno, close to Loggia. It was built in 1626 but it is a reconstruction of an even older one dating back to 1588. It took its name by the venetian governor of the period A. Rimondi. For locals, it’s also known as “Vrisakia”.

Water runs from three lions’ heads into three basins. Four columns with acanthus-leaf Corinthian capitals support an architrave on which are carved the words LIBERALITATIS and FONTES. The Rimondi coat of arms could be seen on top of the lion heads, in the middle of the fountain. During the Ottoman occupation, the fountain was walled in with a hemispherical dome above it. Only one of the columns on which this was stand, survives today.

You can visit Rimondi Fountain through our tours Tour 10 and Tour 11, and discover one of the greatest monuments of the island.