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Fountain of the Golden Spouts

Fountain of the Golden Spouts

Historic 17th century fountain with Tuscan pilasters and decorative spouts, ideal for admiring Renaissance architecture and heraldry in a historic setting.

A monumental drinking fountain built in 1607 next to the Puerta del Peso or La Puente gate, which flanked the southern access to the old Muslim medina, on the royal road to Lorca, and served as a fountain for travellers arriving in the city and as a drinking trough for their mounts. It has an articulated front with Tuscan pilasters that support a continuous entablature with a legend that reads: "This work was ordered to be done by Baça when D. Antiago, Lord of Veas, was mayor of Baça, and his mayor was Mateo Ruiz de Morón, in the year 1607". The panels are decorated with the heraldry of Philip III, that of the city, and that of the corregidor D. Antonio Álvarez de Bohórquez. Under this front there is a white marble pillar-sink with four bronze spouts that emerge from human heads in the central part and crowned lions at the ends.