Possacos Diving Fountain

Valpaços
Description

The diving fountain of a quadrangular plan, with ashlar walls, is covered exteriorly by a gable roof and presents inside with a barrel vault structure. The dome base corresponds to a salient stonework's row. The frontispiece features an entry, closed by an iron gate, with a portal completed by a round arch and the ground-sill salient, framed by two pilasters. On the top of the left side’s pilaster, is engraved a Latin cross erected upon a triangular base. The set is completed by an angular framed cornice, the pilasters being surmounted by pinnacles completed by a Latin cross. Inside the fountain, which can be accessed using a single step, exists a tank of rectangular shape with its bottom dug out in the outcrop. The interior wall presents, on its left, the water pumping system connected to an electric board. Of Contemporary civil architecture influence.


Location: Valpaços
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