Fountain of Plaça d'Espanya
The Fountain of Plaça d’Espanya is a sculptural monument created for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, when the city used architecture and art to present itself to the world. In its Noucentisme design, the fountain was shaped by the architect Josep Maria Jujol, while the sculptural decoration was carried out by Miguel Blay, Frederic Llobet, and the brothers Miquel and Llucià Oslé. Its setting matters because Plaça d’Espanya was planned as a major communication route between Barcelona and the populations of the Bajo Llobregat, and earlier still, the square had held the city’s old cross of territory on the road leading toward Madrid. The fountain’s iconography ties the monument to that civic ambition: it offers a poetic allegory of Spain, centered on a triangular pool and an edicle with three niches, each linked to rivers associated with the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and the surrounding seas. …
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