Source Santa Anna

Author unknown
Ceramics: Josep Aragay signed
Materials: Montjuïc stone with ceramic tiled

The construction of this power comes from the era when Barcelona was given water and was one of the first to be made on this occasion. To make it, in 1356 the City was torn down a house of what was then the Plaza de Santa Ana, which was closed for part of the mountain to the opening of the Avenue portal de l'Angel on the eve of the 1888 Universal Exhibition.

From its origin, the source underwent several restorations (a stone sculpture preserved in the frontispiece to record a nineteenth century); but more importantly, he left it virtually the state as we know it dates from 1918. The initiative was Jaume Matas Bofill when he was councilman of the league in the city of Barcelona. He removed a fence that covered the eyes of pedestrians were installed five noucentista decorative ceramic panels and a glazed ceramic vases that crown the top. As much as anything else were the work of Joseph Aragay Blanchart (1889-1973), which was commissioned just when it had just arrived from a one-year stay in Italy, granted a scholarship by the City for in order to study the techniques of mural decoration.

Aragay the project were paid 500 pesetas and 2000 pesetas pictorial execution. The technical implementation of tiles and vases cost to the City others 1,500 pesetas. The restoration was completed in the spring of 1918.

The vases were suffering damage to disappear completely. On 7 May 2002, the Urban Landscape Institute signed an agreement with a sponsor to make them again. The molds are kept in the municipal museum Josep Aragay of Breda, where he ended up workshop materials that the artist kept in that town from 1925 until his death. Simultaneously took place the same month of May, a general restoration of the fountain.