Fontana (or Il-Fontana) is a village on Gozo Island with a population of 846 people (Nov 2005). Fontana originated from the suburb of Victoria on the Rabat-Xlendi road. Its local name is "Triq tal-Ghajn", (the way to the spring), and it took its name from a spring at the bottom of the road leading to Xlendi, known locally as "il-Ghajn il-Kbira", (the big spring). Fontana is the Italian name for a spring. On the lower part of Fontana, on the right-hand side of the road to Xlendi, one could not help but notice the evergreen Lunzjata Valley going up to the village of Kercem. Local farmers are busy around all year long in this fertile part of Gozo