more information Bicas de Borba Fountain

National Monument since 1910.

Infrastructure architecture, rococo and neoclassical.

Built in 1781 at the expense of the municipality of Borba. It was devoted to the consort Queen D. Maria I and King D. Pedro III.

Engineer: José Alvares de Barros

Sculptors: António Franco Painho and the brothers António and Angélico Velez.

Bicas de Borba Fountain

Borba

National Monument since 1910.

Infrastructure architecture, rococo and neoclassical.

Built in 1781 at the expense of the municipality of Borba. It was devoted to the consort Queen D. Maria I and King D. Pedro III.

Engineer: José Alvares de Barros

Sculptors: António Franco Painho and the brothers António and Angélico Velez.

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Bicas de Borba Fountain

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