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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Visit the Fountain of Arruda dos Vinhos

The Fountain of Arruda dos Vinhos is three taps, and was rebuilt after the 1755 earthquake, in 1789, replacing an ancient carved stone fountain. The original was built in the eighteenth century
This fountain shows the coat of arms of Portugal and the shell of D. Joseph in the crown.
The backrest is sectioned off by pilasters, surmounted by fire pits based on pyramidal bases. The shot of the three panels countercurved converges at the center, bow and crown canopial that does highlight the axis of the monument. This is formed by the basin and its fountains, the reason that follows a vegan subsumed by binding to the coat of arms, and ending with the one that finishes off the bow.
Access to the platform of the spouts through two steps of the fountain at the extremes, opening up, among them a large rectangular tank, preceded in the façade, a set of pillars. The water that supplies springs from a spout that connects directly to the upper basin
The source of the water supplied was born in a mountain range near the place of the forest, being conducted by an aqueduct with arches, almost disappeared.
The Fountain is classified as a Public Interest.

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