Rue Montorge fountain
A series of three Baroque-style basins created in 1676, surmounted by the sculpted faces of Posideon, god of the sea, and of Venus, goddess of love and fertility, in tribute to the healing qualities of water.
This set of fountains was built to fill in three stone vaults created by Jean Alluys, architect and mason, in 1676. At the time, they supported the terrace of the Jardin de Ville park and occasionally sheltered produce merchants. This fountain was the first to pump water from the Chartreuse mountains to Grenoble’s left bank, via pipes that run from the Saint Jean source and under the Isere river.
In practice
Theme
- Historic patrimony,
- Fountain
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Latitude : 45.191372
Longitude : 5.726274
Height : 222
38000 Grenoble
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Information mise à jour le 21/11/2013
par Office de Tourisme Grenoble Alpes
