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Buckingham Fountain Wall Art Prints
Buckingham Fountain Wall Art Prints
Buckingham Fountain is one of Chicago's most popular landmarks. The fountain is located in Grant Park at the center of a formally laid out garden. Buckingham Fountain is a Chicago landmark in the center of Grant Park. It is one of the largest fountains in the world. Built in a rococo wedding cake style and inspired by the Latona Fountain at the Palace of Versailles, it is meant to allegorically represent Lake Michigan. It operates from April to October, with regular water shows and evening color-light shows. During the winter, the fountain is decorated with festival lights. The fountain is considered Chicago's front door, since it resides in Grant Park, the city's front yard near the intersection of Columbus Drive and Congress Parkway. The fountain rises more than seven meters high and consists of three layers of basins surrounded by four pairs of bronze seahorses. The fountain's hourly twenty-minute water display starts with small sprays. While the basins are filled more and more jets are activated until it reaches its climax when the central jet pushes water up to a height of 46m/150ft. Many tourists and Chicagoans visit the fountain each year. The fountain operates daily 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. from mid-April through mid-October. Water shows occur every hour on-the-hour and last 20 minutes. While in operation, the Fountain produces a major water display for 20 minutes every hour. During the major display, a center jet shoots water to a height of 150 feet into the air.
