Once upon a time a statue of Pegasus decorated the fountain. Today she can be seen in the Mirabell Garden. The place of Pegasus was occupied by a statue of Neptune with a sea horse, and on the sides are newts. The fountain was commissioned by Leopold Anton from Firmyan - Prince of the Archbishop of Salzburg from 1727, as the Latin inscription reads: "LeopoLDVs prInCeps Me eXtrVXIt" ("I was built by Prince Leopold"). another value. If you read the capital letters and take them for Roman numerals, you get: L + L + D + V + I + C + M + X + V + X + I is 1732, this is the year in which the fountain was completed . Translated with Google Translate