Fountain · Madrid
Fuente de Neptuno
Today: Fuente de Neptuno, Madrid
- Place
- Madrid
- Kind
- Fountain
- Built
- 1782 to 1786
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Visible from outside
The god Neptune on his chariot, the Salón del Prado fountain Ventura Rodríguez proposed in 1777 and that was made between 1782 and 1786, with the statue by Juan Pascual de Mena. It first stood at the foot of the carrera de San Jerónimo. It now fills the middle of the plaza de Cánovas del Castillo.
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