Fountain of Apollo, Versailles 阿波罗喷泉，凡尔赛The Palace of Versailles occupies 2,000 acres (8 sq km), more than twice the area of Manhattan’s Central Park. But, then, the self-styled ‘Sun King’ was never less than overweeningly ambitious. Louis XIV saw himself as the Apollo of his day, and the finest of the fountains created for the palace gardens was inspired by the idea of the Roman sun god rising from the sea at dawn on his light-bringing ride across the heavens. Designed by Charles Le Brun, this magnificent eye-catcher with its foaming horses, whales and tritons blowing water from wreathed horns, stands at the head of a mile-long canal that makes the palace gardens seem all but infinite.阿波罗喷泉坐落于法国凡尔赛宫。
凡尔赛宫占地2000英亩（8平方公里），比纽约曼哈顿中央公园面积的两倍还多。
凡尔赛宫曾经的主人路易十四自诩为“太阳神”，自负的野心可见一斑。
他认为自己就是那个时代的太阳神阿波罗。
而阿波罗喷泉的灵感就是来自这位罗马太阳神在黎明从海面和他的马车队登场为世界带来来自天堂的光明的一幕。
由Charles Le Brun带领设计，阿波罗喷泉的马像，鲸鱼像，以及海神Tritons吹着的号角都能喷出水花。
整个喷泉坐落在长达数英里的河道的起点，从这里看起来，凡尔赛宫的花园似乎是无穷无尽的。
Jet d'Eau, Geneva大喷泉，日内瓦If, on freezing or windy days, you go in search of the source of this world famous and much copied fountain opened here in 1951, and a symbol of the Swiss city ever since all you will find is a plain 4-inch (10cm) diameter nozzle. No bronze sea gods, no copper mermaids. But if the wind drops or the thermometer rises, it’s time to run as that innocuous nozzle sends seven tons of water shooting 460 ft (140m) into the Alpine sky at 120mph (200kph). Fed with millions of air bubbles, the water gleams snow white, sparkling with rainbows when the sun shines through its sky-reaching plume. Sometimes, the simplest things really are the best.世界闻名的大喷泉于1951年建成，是瑞士日内瓦的城市象征，只是，如果你在一个寒冷的冬日里想要去一睹大喷泉的真容，你恐怕就只能看见一个直径4英尺（10厘米）的喷水嘴了。
没有海神的铜像，也没有美人鱼。
但当等到冬风渐逝，气温回暖之日，就是这个小水嘴发威之时了，它会将重达7吨的水以200公里/秒的速度射向140米的阿尔卑斯山高空之中。
随着雪白的水柱而来的是无数的气泡，在阳光的照射下，彩虹会伴随着喷泉一起出现。
或许有时候，最简单的才是最好的。
Stravinsky Fountain, Paris特拉文斯基喷泉，巴黎Set between the Flamboyant Gothic 16th-Century church of Saint-Merri and what the playful French sculptor Jean Tinguely described as the “superb monstrosity” of the Pompidou Centre, the Stravinsky Fountain must surely make even the most high-minded art historian smile. One of seven new Parisian fountains commissioned by presidential decree in 1978, Jean Tinguely and Niki de Saint Phalle’s colourful kinetic fountain evokes themes in the works of the Russian-born composer Igor Stravinsky. For Stravinsky and his contemporaries, the circus was a popular theme and this charmingly surreal fountain is suitably clown-like. When it opened in 1983, above Pierre Boulez’s underground music research centre, Le Monde thought it had “the character of a mechanical music box of the 18th Century”.坐落在壮丽雄伟的圣梅里教堂和被玩世不恭的法国雕刻家Jean Tinguely称为“超级可怕的”蓬皮杜中心之间，即使是品味最高的历史学家也会为特拉文斯基喷泉而倾倒。
作为法国总统在1978年特别下令建造的七座巴黎喷泉之一，这座由Jean Tinguely和Niki de Saint Phalle建造的动态温泉是以俄罗斯作家Igor Stravinsky的作品为创作灵感的。
在Igor Stravinsky的年代，马戏团是一个非常流行的主题，而这座超现实主义的喷泉与小丑的形象非常契合。
当1983年这座喷泉正式投入使用时，他位于艺术家Pierre Boulez的地下音乐研究中心的上方。
《法国世界报》认为这座喷泉有着“18世纪机械音乐盒的特点”。