There are several monuments in the Plaza de la Virgen. We find a sign composed of ceramic pieces -socarrats- with the title “Plaça de la Mare de déu” together with the representation of the Mare de Déu dels Desamparats -according to its ancient iconography- by Jaume Scals. It is placed on the main façade of the Dressing House.

There are two sculptural monuments in the square; one in the current street of the Hearts of the Virgin Mary where is the monument to Canon Don Mariano Liñán, a bronze bust by the sculptor José Esteve Edo -created according to the iconography of this character painted by Vicente López-. A bust bearing the “pectoral” cross, a premature attribute of his episcopate of Teruel. The Work, surrounded by a short garden space with stone benches, is under a not very high pedestal with four gilded bronze covers that pour water through the mouth over the pile below. The pedestal, on its obverse, has, under a laureate and crowned shield of the city of Valencia, an inscription that reads “To Canon Liñán” and, on the back, “The Society of Drinking Water and Improvements of Valencia paid for this fountain as a tribute to the promoter of the first supply of the City. 1977”.

The other monument also alludes to the waters and their unique regime in Valencia. He is gloriously personified in the already ancient Water Court that meets every Thursday at the Apostles’ Gate in which an oral, public and unappealable trial is conducted.

The fountain in the Plaza de la Virgen, on a large cup with deisgual shafts -all in bronze- on which lies a bearded man semi-leaning -represents the Turia- distant but obvious memory of the Hellenistic depictions of the Nile and the Tiber Romans. They overflow with fruit, a characteristic and emblematic of ancient Valencia. Around them, on two pedestals from section to perhigh arch, they figure, personifying the irrigation ditches flowing from the Turia. Eight girls or teenagers, with Valencian hairstyle and plough comb, all with a pitcher from which water flows and represent the following irrigation channels:

- Benager and Faitanar, with the pitcher on his right shoulder
- Rust, with the pitcher held by both hands
- Favara, with the pitcher on his left foot
- Fourth, who holds it in both hands
- Tormos, over right shoulder
- Rascanya, on Mislata's left arm, on the foot
- Mestalla, with the pitcher on his left arm, helping himself from the right

The entire fountain is the work of the sculptor Manuel Silvestre Montesinos or "Silvestre d'Edeta". Opened in 1976.



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Plaza de la Virgen
46001, Valencia