The Broken Violin Fountain (Fântâna Vioara Spartă) is a monument in the Colțea Park on the corner of Ion C. Brătianu Boulevard and Carol I Boulevard in central Bucharest.
The Broken Violin Fountain monument consists of a large fountain with in the center a broken bronze violin. The monument was designed by the Italian artist Domenica Regazzoni and created by the Romanian sculptor Ioan Bolborea. The violin has a height of 5 meters and weights 7 tons. The plinth of the monument features a bronze plate with the Italian inscription “Violino Spaccato” which means split violin.
The monument symbolizes the “incredible force of music, which releases sound energies from the material casing of the instrument, at the cost of the disaggregation of matter”.
