The fountain we see in the hamlet main swuare, known as "June", carries as a real name "Messidor" (the French Republican calendar name for the harvest month). This is because such statue, forged in cast iron, is only one of the several scattered across Southern Italy: Rotello, Carovilli, Matrice, Ortona dei Marsi, Alife and more. The explanation is as simple as important: the prototype, the single marble sculpture, was exhibited during the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris by sculptor Mothurin Moreau. Jean-Pierre Victor Andrè, businessman in chief of the Societè Anonime des Fonderies d?Art du Val d?Osne, had some time later the idea to serially cast metal reprodutcions of French statues, among which the Messidor, appeared in the price list of the Societé in 1867 and, apparently, of great success.
The fountain we see in the hamlet main swuare, known as "June", carries as a real name "Messidor" (the French Republican calendar name for the harvest month). This is because such statue, forged in cast iron, is only one of the several scattered across Southern Italy: Rotello, Carovilli, Matrice, Ortona dei Marsi, Alife and more. The explanation is as simple as important: the prototype, the single marble sculpture, was exhibited during the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris by sculptor Mothurin Moreau. Jean-Pierre Victor Andrè, businessman in chief of the Societè Anonime des Fonderies d?Art du Val d?Osne, had some time later the idea to serially cast metal reprodutcions of French statues, among which the Messidor, appeared in the price list of the Societé in 1867 and, apparently, of great success.