Drinker of the Holy Trinity in Geraci Siculo
The Bevaio della Santissima Trinità di Geraci Siculo is a monumental drinking trough which rises at the gates of the village, at the foot of the castle, in correspondence with the road that leads to the state-owned pastures of the surrounding mountains in Geraci. The drinking trough takes its name from the ancient church of the Holy Trinity which once stood on the site of the current public garden.
The drinking trough was built in the last decades of the sixteenth century by the master of origin Pietro Tozzo, at the behest of the Ventimiglia family .
The fountain, made of freestone, consists of a long basin flanked by two cuspidate turrets bearing the emblems of the Universitas di Geraci and which have four orifices that pour the waters into elegant sandstone bowls to then pour them out. in the central basin. The left building is flanked by decorative floral motifs, the one on the right by a vase of flowers. On the central wall, crowned by dovetail battlements, there is instead the crest of the Ventimiglia family, a lion on a helmet brandishing a sword. The original structure was higher, from reliable popular sources it appears that the structure was lowered in the Fascist period to make it functional as a drinking trough for the animals.
