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Fountain composition "Cascade - Rotating Ball" is located on Malaya Sadovaya street. This is a unique fountain-clock, consisting of 12 flat granite steps with bronze figures and a heavy granite ball, weighing 739 kg, rotating from the movement of water. the idea is to change the direction of the water jets moving from one stage to another and pointing to the numbers every hour.

According to the new tradition, make a wish and throw a coin over your shoulder, turning your back on the fountain. It is necessary to stand at the very corner of the trapezium. What a step will fall, so many times you need to scroll the ball and after so many months will come true desire.
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Unfortunately, the fountain often breaks, as tourists do not limit themselves to the fountain, but sometimes also seek to climb on it. Also, the cause of breakages is sometimes clogging. Therefore, maybe not, but because something was wrongly calculated, but the fact is that now the fountain works simply as an adornment of the city for the joy of tourists, but its functional hour destination is no longer fulfilling.

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Address: St. Petersburg, st. M. Sadovaya.