The Fountains of Bellagio : A Little Piece of Europe
The heart of the Strip, in Las Vegas is home to one of the America’s most ambitious and striking water features; the Fountains of the Bellagio Hotel. With perpetual motion and nightly water shows accompanied by lights and music, the Fountains of Bellagio entertain and charm its visitors into coming back for more. The fountains offer an extremely modernized version of the traditional light and water shows in Europe.
The company responsible for designing and maintaining the Fountains of Bellagio is called Wet Design. They specialize in intricately designed light and water shows. The Fountains of Bellagio are actually a series underwater pipes which have in excess of a thousand nozzles. In addition, the fountains have four thousand individual lights which are accompanied with a stunning and state of the art sound system.
There are three type of fountain nozzles used in the show. The first type of nozzles are called oarsmen. This nozzle causes the water to swing back and forth and give the appearance that the water is dancing. The second type of nozzles are called shooters. This type of nozzle...