This fountain, together with that of the Seven Sisters, culminates the fruitful plan to regenerate the landscapes and paths of Casa de Campo undertaken by the Second Republic after the public opening of what was a closed park, until 1931, to the free use and enjoyment of Madrileños. The oral memory collects the ancestral tradition of the “Burial of the Sardine” rite, which, started at sunset in the urban areas of the hermitages of San Antonio de la Florida, ends through a processional itinerary between torches, in the idyllic esplanade of the Fuente del Pajarito enclosure, where the sardine is buried. Erected in 1936, its presence, one of the most suggestive of the Casa de Campo, seems to continue to be linked to that party with which the Carnival celebration closes. (https://patrimonioypaisaje.madrid.es/portales/monumenta/es/Monumentos-y-Edificios-Singulares/Monumentos/Fuente-del-Pajarito/)
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