Fonte da Misericórdia

Class: pre-industrial element

Type: water source

Municipality: Assunção, Ajuda, Salvador e Santo Ildefonso

Basin:

watershed: not found

Accesibility

Public

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Measures

Area

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Area: without area

Linear

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Length: without length

Width: 5

Height: 4

Volume

Units: liters

Length: without volume

Flow

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Length: without volume

Coordinates

Longitude: -7.166058300805448

Latitude: 38.87888277537293

Projected UTM zone: 29

SRID code: 25829

Projected UTM (x): 659080.4

Projected UTM (y): 4304934.5

Date

Type of date: year

Year: 1622

The 5 closest

Fonte da Biquinha (water source): 113 m

Fonte da Alameda (water source): 132 m

Cisterna (reservoir): 186 m

Chafariz do Aqueduto (water source): 393 m

Fonte de São Lourenço (water source): 469 m

The 5 closest water source

Fonte da Biquinha : 113 m

Fonte da Alameda : 132 m

Chafariz do Aqueduto : 393 m

Fonte de São Lourenço : 469 m

Fonte de São Vicente : 761 m

Fonte da Misericórdia

2023-06-12 jose

Description

The Fonte da Misericórdia was built in 1622 under the design of the architect of the Royal House, Diogo Marques, in Largo da Misericórdia in works inspected by the architect of the House of Bragança Pêro Vaz Pereira so that the first waters of the Amoreira Aqueduct flowed there.1622, 23 June - water flows for the first time in the fountain, in Largo da Misericórdia, made by mason Sebastião Vaz, according to a design by Diogo Marques and inspected by Pêro Vaz Pereira; In 1951, the alteration project in that area of the city caused the fountain to be transferred to the current Largo 25 de Abril because it seemed to congest traffic in Largo da Misericórdia. Is built in marble from Estremoz ( a region rich in marble). In the center of the fountain is an equestrian statue of D. Sancho II (dressed in armor holding a shield in his left hand with Quinas). The dolphin-shaped spouts gush water into a three-lobed tank where one of the stones bears the inscription “1622 ANOS”.The set is surrounded by an iron railing with a marble base interrupted by three pairs of balusters in the form of volutes that allow access to the tank and three balusters in the form of fireworks arranged in a triangle.

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Ponds

# ponds: 1