Font de Portaferrissa

Carrer de la Portaferrissa, 2
Ciutat Vella
08002
Barcelona

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Latitude: 2.1719356999999
Longitude: 41.3830427



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MOSAIC
Description: panel that decorates the wall of the fountain, located under a vault-handle pan outside. The tile is made of square glazed ceramic tiles. The decoration consists of 373 polychrome tiles representing the entrance to the city, flanked by two towers and the walls. In the foreground, scenes from 18th-century everyday life are represented. Sant Josep Oriol, depicted on clouds between the towers, dominates the scene. The panel is completed with three signs at the bottom, between the two fountains of the fountain, where the following is read:

The "Porta Ferriça" was one of the doors of the second wall of Barcelona, ​​built in the thirteenth century.
The iron bar is one of the longitudinal measures used in the city - it was named after it as well as the street leading to it.
Door from the center of the old city, in the Puertaferrisa street, at the beginning of the sixteenth century the Gralla Bello House plateresque building disappeared when the Duke of Victoria street was opened, and the Pinós House, of the Marqués de Barbará, was demolished. also in the middle of the 19th century. The construction of the Moya Palace, (today Comillas) in 1774, led to the demolition of the old door.
Neighborhood Association - Puertaferrisa - Cucurulla - Boters

On the right wall, a small tiled panel indicates:

On September 24, 1959, the Mercè festival, the tile panel of this fountain, an original piece by the ceramist Joan Guivernau, was inaugurated

Time: 1959
Author: Joan Baptista Guivernau Sans, ceramist (signed); Pere Voltes, text
Information Source:
Peoples of Catalonia: Font de la Portaferrissa

BUILDING
Architect: Unknown
Period: 1680
Original use: source
"The Portaferissa fountain is probably one of the oldest in the city of Barcelona. It was built in the 17th century, specifically in 1681, attached to the wall next to Porta Ferrissa, one of the doors of the second city wall. Initially, its original location was on Calle del Carme, on the corner with Calle Xucla, attached to the school of Cordelles. Following the fire in the original Bethlehem church, the Baroque church was projected to which the fountain had to go. In the year when the works began, the fountain was moved to the place it currently occupies. The reason for this change was the request of the citizens, who thus avoided having to cross the stream of La Rambla to go and find the water on the other side. The name of the street originates from the iron bars at the door of the city wall and was one of the measures of length used in Barcelona. The prestige of this fountain was so high that, when the high-quality Montcada waters arrived in Barcelona, ​​their users opposed the change in supply, basically due to the healing properties they attributed to the water. of the source. On April 8, 1861, the fountain was opened on the corner of Portaferrissa-Rambla. "

Information Source:
Patrimony of Catalonia 24. The source of the Portaferrissa. Spaces: Magazine of the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works (1988). No. 12
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Font de Portaferrissa

Carrer de la Portaferrissa, 2
Ciutat Vella / Barri Gòtic
08002 - Barcelona
 http://ajuntament.barcelona.cat/arqueologiabarcelona/mosaics/mosaic/carrer-de-la-portaferrissa-2-font-de-la-portaferrissa/
Are you visiting in the Program How Does Barcelona Work?

MOSAIC
Description: panel that decorates the wall of the fountain, located under a vault-handle pan outside. The tile is made of square glazed ceramic tiles. The decoration consists of 373 polychrome tiles representing the entrance to the city, flanked by two towers and the walls. In the foreground, scenes from 18th-century everyday life are represented. Sant Josep Oriol, depicted on clouds between the towers, dominates the scene. The panel is completed with three signs at the bottom, between the two fountains of the fountain, where the following is read:

The "Porta Ferriça" was one of the doors of the second wall of Barcelona, ​​built in the thirteenth century.
The iron bar is one of the longitudinal measures used in the city - it was named after it as well as the street leading to it.
Door from the center of the old city, in the Puertaferrisa street, at the beginning of the sixteenth century the Gralla Bello House plateresque building disappeared when the Duke of Victoria street was opened, and the Pinós House, of the Marqués de Barbará, was demolished. also in the middle of the 19th century. The construction of the Moya Palace, (today Comillas) in 1774, led to the demolition of the old door.
Neighborhood Association - Puertaferrisa - Cucurulla - Boters

On the right wall, a small tiled panel indicates:

On September 24, 1959, the Mercè festival, the tile panel of this fountain, an original piece by the ceramist Joan Guivernau, was inaugurated

Time: 1959
Author: Joan Baptista Guivernau Sans, ceramist (signed); Pere Voltes, text
Information Source:
Peoples of Catalonia: Font de la Portaferrissa

BUILDING
Architect: Unknown
Period: 1680
Original use: source
"The Portaferissa fountain is probably one of the oldest in the city of Barcelona. It was built in the 17th century, specifically in 1681, attached to the wall next to Porta Ferrissa, one of the doors of the second city wall. Initially, its original location was on Calle del Carme, on the corner with Calle Xucla, attached to the school of Cordelles. Following the fire in the original Bethlehem church, the Baroque church was projected to which the fountain had to go. In the year when the works began, the fountain was moved to the place it currently occupies. The reason for this change was the request of the citizens, who thus avoided having to cross the stream of La Rambla to go and find the water on the other side. The name of the street originates from the iron bars at the door of the city wall and was one of the measures of length used in Barcelona. The prestige of this fountain was so high that, when the high-quality Montcada waters arrived in Barcelona, ​​their users opposed the change in supply, basically due to the healing properties they attributed to the water. of the source. On April 8, 1861, the fountain was opened on the corner of Portaferrissa-Rambla. "

Information Source:
Patrimony of Catalonia 24. The source of the Portaferrissa. Spaces: Magazine of the Department of Territorial Policy and Public Works (1988). No. 12
MORE INFORMATION

Barcelona City Council's Open Knowledge Repository
Public art - Ajuntament de Barcelona: Font de la Portaferrissa

Automatically translated with Google Translate API.