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ATZENETA D’ALBAIDA
Population: 1.175 hab. Municipal area: 6,10 km2 Altitude: 450 m. Demonym: atzenetí, atzenetina Town Hall Phone no.: 96 235 91 61 Web: www.atzenetadalbaida.com E-mail: adalbaida_sec@gva.es
MONUMENTS The Fountain of the “Twenty-one Jets” The fountain of the “Twenty-one Jets” is preserved from monumental public sources, but without flowing drinking water. The fountain consists of twenty bronze jets and a main one that comes out of the mouth of a schematic lion face, carved in Atzeneta stone and set to the center of the fountain wall. The wall is presided over by a devotional mosaic of tiles dedicated to St. Antonio Abad. According to studies in
ATZENETA D’ALBAIDA
the area, the source should already exist in Moorish times, but it was the inhabitants of the village of the seventeenth century who beautified it to be the admiration of passers-by of the royal road at that time. Next to the fountain there is also a watering hole that was formerly used to feed the animals.
