Fountain · Madrid
Fuente de Apolo
Today: Fuente de Apolo, Madrid
- Place
- Madrid
- Kind
- Fountain
- Built
- 1780 to 1803
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
The central fountain of the Salón del Prado, also called the Four Seasons, begun by Manuel Álvarez in 1780; the statue of Apollo, with Carlos III's features, was finished by Alfonso Giraldo Bergaz in 1802, and the whole was unveiled in 1803. It stands on the paseo del Prado, between Cibeles and Neptune.
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