Silvia Photo Colome - La Vanguardia 
La Font de the Granot - The Fountain of Rana
Author: Josep Campeny (1912)
Avenida Diagonal and Calle Corsica - Along with Robert Hall and Plaza Juan Carlos I
In September 2009 a television producer chose one of the beautiful corners of the Avenida Diagonal and Plaza Juan Carlos I for shoot a commercial.
The problem arose when one of the trucks used for shooting took the beautiful fountain in front of Josep Campeny modernist "La Font de la Granot.
source, which represents a very realistic way a child holding a frog, was split into several pieces , and the damage was particularly severe on the pedestal made of stone from Montjuic . Several months later
was restored and put back in full operation. This source of sculptor Josep Campeny was inaugurated in 1912 in an interesting city program to beautify the Eixample with useful sources besides, they were decorative.
Campeny, sculptor Igualada emerged from the prestigious Ecole Llotja was also the author of two other sources the same program of the Trinxa Pelayo Street with the University and the Noi dels Cantirs in the Plaza Urquinaona.
worth a visit for this source is right next to the Palau Robert (Home of free exhibitions) and see the incredible realism of the sculpture and the beautiful decoration of the pedestal.
if one is thirsty You can always cool drinking water that serves the frog from his mouth.
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