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Fuente Pierres Vedel

Calle Parral, 7, 3, 44194 Celadas, Teruel, Spain
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  • Place Types Museum
  • Address Calle Parral, 7, 3, 44194 Celadas, Teruel, Spain
  • Coordinate 40.4738609,-1.1488445
  • Website Unknown
  • Rating 4
  • Compound Code FVF2+GF Celadas, Spain
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Fuente Pierres Vedel
Fuente Pierres Vedel
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Bicho Matey (12/12/2018)
This fountain is the work of the French master Pierres Vedel. The date of its construction, 1560, is engraved in the central voussoir of the arch and architrave of the fountain. The work stands out for its originality and imagination, the main characteristics of this great engineer and architect. Until 1560, there was only the "well of the raft" or "the raft of the well". In both ways this site is named in ancient documents. At the moment, on the floor of the raft -empedrada, but covered with lands of alluvium- there is a plantation of poplars and a great willow. The water from this well gives a low level to lead to the same town. Pierres Vedel has imagination and next to the first houses of the town he marks a pentagon (about 500 m2 of surface) that empties, and thus he obtains the hole or cavity, like a well of great dimensions, at a lower level than the waters of the well of the raft. By this procedure, the water runs without difficulty from its birth to the desired place. The rest is a matter of walls. The pentagon, emptied of lands, closes with strong walls of masonry or masonry and is divided into two parts: one for people and another for horses or cattle.
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