Fountain for drinking water by mouth

Fountain for drinking water by mouth

Fountain for drinking water by mouth

Fountain formed by a large rectangular pool topped by semicircular apses at its ends. All made with black granite. In its main central axis there are 4 jets that project the water at a great height, while another 8 jets are arranged parallel to its long sides and project the water at medium height.

Large rectangular pond arranged in front of the bust of the journalist Matías Prats Cañete. The pond is made of masonry decorated with clay tiles arranged in a grid and topped by a white marble curb. The bottom of the pond is paved with white marble and lines of black marble arranged in the longitudinal direction of the pond. A set of 16 jets, 8 for each larger side of the pond, project the water in a way that forms a water arc.

Fountain identical to the one arranged in Plaza José María Gutiérrez de Villarrubia, only the environment of the fountain changes.
Pond fountain with a starry plant pond but with rounded corners. In the center, a pillar shaped like a bulbous column supports a round cup galloned to the outside. In the center of it a single jet. The rounded tops of the elements in this font give it a cushioned look. The fountain pond is made of limestone, while the pillar, bowl and spout are made of marble.

Cascade fountain formed by 4 ponds decreasing both in size and level, adapting to the unevenness of the terrain from Plaza Colón to Puerta del Rincón. Each pond ends in an overflow that pours its water into the lower pond in the style of the fatal ornamental gardens of the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos.

It is a work of neo-romantic breath, made in concrete by the sculptor Rafael del Rosal, according to a project by the renowned architect Carlos Sáenz de Santamaría. On the center of the great circular basin, ringed by yours, the central pillar rises, overloaded with scallops and legendary fish, on which two decreasing cups are perched, topped by the plume of a copious spout, which when falling faints into locks of Water.

The fountain consists of a square pool with walls covered in goat marble, in the center of which is the sculptural group. Two typical Cordovan women, one on each side of a pillar that houses the water pipe. One wears a pitcher on her hip, and the other has one hand in the water and a pitcher next to it. Both, combed with the old and typical Cordovan bows and combs from the mid-20th century.
The work has an added plate where some verses by the poet Miguel Salcedo Hierro are read:
"Women of love imprisoned,

The neo-baroque granite fountain with a single spout was designed in 1948 by Víctor Escribano Ucelay. Its construction was incomplete, in the absence of finishing with the architectural finish of its pilaster. In 1984, a large semi-circular planter was added, according to the initial project. Currently this auction has been lost.