Fontes, fontes, fontes a mao cheia, mergulhe numa delas: em Kansas City...

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Paulo Roberto de Almeida

J.C. Nichols Memorial Fountain, by Henri-Léon Gréber (1910, reinstalled in Kansas City and dedicated in 1960) at 47th Street and J.C. Nichols Parkway, Country Club Plaza.

Muse of the Missouri, byWheeler Williams, downtown, Main Street at 9th Street.

Henry Wollman Bloch Fountain, in front of Union Station, at W. Pershing Road at Main Street.

Children's Fountain, by Tom Corbin, at Oak Trafficway & Burlington (MO Hwy 9).

Volker Fountain, 28-foot-high (8.5 m) waterfall and basin along Brush Creek, Volker Boulevard, between Oak St. and Rockhill Road.

Double Monopole, by Keith Sonnier; twin 60-foot-high (18 m) waterfall sculptures lighted by red, blue, and yellow neon lights, in the median of Cookingham Drive at Paris Street, at Kansas City International Airport.

Fountain of Bacchus, W. 47th Street at Chandler Court in The Plaza. The main sculpture is made of 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) of cast lead.

Firefighters' Fountain, W. 31st Street and Broadway.

Pomona, fountain sculpture by Donatello Gabbrielli, at Ward Parkway & Broadway, in The Plaza.

Northland Fountain, at Oak Trafficway & Vivion Road.

Eagle Scout Memorial Fountain, E. 39th Street at Gillham Road.

Crown Center Square Fountain at Crown Center, Grand Avenue & E. Pershing during the holidays.

Crown Center Square Fountain. "Dancing Waters" shows with synchronized 60-foot-high (18 m) jets of water run every hour all day on weekends, and at noon & evening hours on weekdays.

Meyer Circle ("Seahorse") Fountain, at Meyer Boulevard & Ward Parkway. The fountain hosts a 17th-century Venetian sculpture.

Waterworks Spectacular, at Kauffman Stadium.

Fountains in Brush Creek, along Ward Parkway, in The Plaza.

Mermaid Fountain, at Nichols Road & Broadway, in The Plaza.

A fountain at Liberty Memorial.

Kansas City Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fountain, at Broadway & W. 41st Street, in Westport.

Neptune Fountain, W. 47th Street & Wornall Road, in The Plaza.

Northeast Concourse Fountain, on St. John Avenue between Gladstone and Benton Boulevards.

Diana (and Cherubs), fountain sculpture, at Ward Parkway & Wornall Road, in The Plaza.

Auto dealership "car fountain", on NW Prairie View Drive, at I-29.