Fonte de São Lourenço

Class: pre-industrial element

Type: water source

Municipality: Assunção, Ajuda, Salvador e Santo Ildefonso

Basin:

watershed: not found

Accesibility

Public

Conservation status: good

Actual use: in use

Access: car

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Coordinates

Longitude: -7.1621739864349365

Latitude: 38.88015875987361

Projected UTM zone: 29

SRID code: 25829

Projected UTM (x): 659414.5

Projected UTM (y): 4305082.9

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The 5 closest

Fonte de São Vicente (water source): 316 m

Poço de Alcalá (water well): 351 m

Fonte da Misericórdia (water source): 469 m

Fonte da Biquinha (water source): 530 m

Fonte da Prata (water source): 552 m

The 5 closest water source

Fonte de São Vicente : 316 m

Fonte da Misericórdia : 469 m

Fonte da Biquinha : 530 m

Fonte da Prata : 552 m

Fonte da Alameda : 586 m

Fonte de São Lourenço

2023-05-24 jose

Description

Fountain built in the second half of the century. XVIII by Judge Bernardo Xavier de Barbosa Sachetti to the French military engineer Valleré who at the time worked on the works of the Fort of N. Sra. da Graça, in the place where there was already another Fountain of São Lourenço, this seventeenth century (1626) and which was moved to the Quinta de Sto. António on the outskirts of the city. The construction project was grandiose and expensive as Sachetti wanted, and Valleré influenced by French neoclassical art there begins to build a fountain on which to place statues of female figures of Greco-Roman mythology.&nbsp; The statues that would serve the fountain remained in Quinta de Sto. António. Return in 2005. The fountain consists of three spouts that make the water run to a rectangular tank, all surmounted by four columns that at its top have the said statues. Fountain composed of backrest and tank. Simple volume arranged vertically. Back-to-SO splinter, of two registers; the lower one consists of three rectangles delimited by marble friezes filled internally by rock aphorements and with water spout, in the center, with hexagonal base affixed to the backrest and circular in front where it fits metal pipe; Rectangular marble tank describing countercurved plan next to the exterior angles where are inserted, one on each side, two frames of circular base, hexagonal body and semispherical upper finish.

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Web links

#1 : https://www.visitarportugal.pt/portalegre/elvas/elvas/fonte-sao-lourenco

#2 : Not defined

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Ponds

# ponds: 1