Historic Fountains

Fuente La Alcubilla

This fountain probably has a Roman origin, due to the fact that it has a tank made of opus caementicium. It is located at  Partidor de la Minilla walk which also takes us to  Fuente de La Higuera.

The construction of an ‘alcuba’ or ‘alcubilla’  is a system very used for the collection of the water of the store and its later conduction to a source, this consists in quadrangular pit covered by a half-orange brick dome. The water is collected  in the surface to be conducted to a place more or less distant from its source.

Fuente El Arquita

It is located at ‘Camino de Montemayor’ coming around Huelma orchard. Around 1.5 km far from the town centre.

It is characterised by the presence of a sewage pipe and atanors at different points of its circuit by means of manholes and arks. They are circular constructions of circular layout which interrupt the flow of the pipe, taking the flow which comes from a side and going out by the other side.

It consists in a tank composed by a rectangular pool mainly made of stone except the front part which is made of bricks. The back and side parts are elevated compared with the part made of brick. Nowadays, after its restoration, the back and side parts has been replaced by the limestones of the retaining wall; for this reason the fountain is embedded in the wall. There is a cement ramp and a ladder to access this fountain and the floor is protected by a limestone wall.

Over de retaining wall and the fountain there is a sign made of tiles framed in an orange rectangle and a whitewashed frame. The fountain is located at the own spring, for this reason there is not a water pipe to this fountain. The water comes through a hole located at the northeast side.

Fuente El Chorrillo

This fountain is around 6 km far from northeast of Montilla at ‘Cordel del Chorrillo’ cattle route; to the north of ‘El Chorrillo’ and to the west of ‘Huerta del Chorrillo’.

Water comes from the south through a tunnel excavated on the rock. In the last three meters  of this route it runs at a great height supported by a masonry wall and covered with bricks. At the north end of this wall, there is a iron pipe which pour water in a masnory circular pillar of water 1.65 m of diameter, which is connected with 6 pools linked by its lower sides and intercommunicated by a toothed wall

It drains water by means of an valve located at the north side where closely flows a stream.

Fuente Descansavacas

It is located to the east of Cerro Simón, to the south of el Castillejo and to the northeast of Descansavacas fountain.

It consist in a circled pillar of 2 metres of diameter and three watering holes located under a pipe.

It has a great historical and landscape value; it is located in a resting place of the cattle route.

Fuente La Malena

It is located in the Camino de La Magdalena 1 km north to the city, in the southern end of a cattle road which connects with Duernas salt flats where we find De la Teja and Dos Hermanas Fountains.

The water falls in a circular pool from a little pediment which has a gable roof. The water comes from a mine in the hillside. The pipes run underground from closed wells. The portection of the pipes is essential due to the fragility of the tubes made of clay. All this tubes are opened to the outside by ventilation shafts called ‘skylights’.

It is used for urban, rural and livestock supply. Historically, has supply the population and cattle.

Fuente Nueva

It is one of the most emblematic and with best referenced fountains in Montilla.  In the Capitular Acts of 1526 you can find the information about the request of the residents of the town to make “a pillar and an alcove” in the Fuente Nueva. Its construction dates from 1.528 and is attributed to Hernan Ruiz the Younger, man master of Cordoba and Seville cathedrals ans one of the most important of Andalusian Renaissance.

This fountain along with the Cuadrado (disappeared nowadays) Santa María, El Pez, De la Higuera and El Caño fountains are the fountains referenced by Ramírez de las Casas at his publication: Cronografía histórico-estadística de la provincia y Obispado de Córdoba (1840-1873).

Fuente El Piojo

It is located 2 km north the city at the western side of the ancient path to Cordoba, 800 km away from the Fuente Nueva.

The fountain is on the edge of the same path. The water comes from the west through a conduct protected by a masonry wall and in the surface in the last metre of track. From the edge of this wall emerges the pipe which pours the water in a  circled basin which drain by a underground conduit.

Fuente de San Carlos

It is located in the path between San Carlos and El Chorrillo.  It has a squared pillar built with solid brick which withdraw its content directly to the ground creating brooklets.

Tap water is supplied by pipes from a nearby and shallow reservoir; the water collection system is based on the existence of pipes, from where you can drink directly or take the water in containers.

These pipes are installed in pediments or elevated constructions from where there is a waterfall that allows water collection. in the vicinity of this source there are other fountains such as the Chorrillo and the Descansavacas.

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