This fountain, together with the Fuente del Pajarito, culminates the fruitful plan to regenerate the landscapes and paths of the Casa de Campo undertaken by the Second Republic after the opening of what was until 1931 a park closed to the free use and enjoyment of the people of Madrid; it is therefore inserted in the series of what we can recognize as “republican sources” or “sources of the republican period”. With drinking water like all of them, its severe granite and prismatic profile, with Herrerian resonances and a solemn but serene presence, overlooks the Meaques stream and rises up in the Plaza de las Siete Hermanas, at its confluence with the Paseo de los Plátanos, near the IMEFE Workshop School. Its resounding unadorned appearance seems to link it to the dramatic historical significance of its foundation in 1936, an omen to the auspices of the civil war and the end of an era of freedoms that this series of fountains whose cycle closes that of the Seven Sisters. heritageandlandscape.madrid.es
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