Fuente de Puerta de Jerez - Sevilla, Spain
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N 37° 22.950 W 005° 59.604
30S E 234967 N 4141511
Fuente in the Plaza de Puerta de Jerez in Sevilla.
Waymark Code: WMCD54
Location: Andalucía, Spain
Date Posted: 08/24/2011
Views: 15
Fuente en la Plaza de Puerta de Jerez in Sevilla.
The fountain is placed in the center of the Plaza where once was the Puerta de Jerez (Jerez Door), part of the city walls and replaced by another in 1846 and finally demolished in 1864.
The fountain is dedicated to Sevilla and it´s the work of Manuel Delgado Brackembury in 1929.
The fountain represents the city and all the symbols surrounding it allude to the city: the gear industry, the caduceus of trade and sheets for agriculture. It's about a kind of large lotus leaves, supported by pictures of children naked, riding on a big turtle. Around the perimeter of the cup were four other children with shells of the gushing water. The set of children and spouts led the people of Sevilla to call it the fountain "of pissing."
The fountain was removed on the occasion of the works of the Metro (in the years 1974-1983). When the source was restored to its place, part of the "pissing" statues (the ones outside) were not placed.
The sculptor Brackembury Delgado used to the children living in and around his studio as models. You can see a girl carrying a doll, along with another child crying....
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