Water spouts from the mouth of one of the bearded mascaron faces or masks by sculptor Jean-Pancrace Chastel (1726-93) on the pedestal of the central fountain of 1755 in Place de l’Hôtel de Ville at Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France. The fountain, designed by architect Esprit-Joseph Brun, is topped by a Roman column, a relic of the ancient city of Aquae Sextiae Salluviorum. The Roman city was supplied by aqueducts, with some of the water coming from the same spring to the north at Pinchinats.

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