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Polaroid of the week: Mermaid fountain in Antigua, Guatemala

Polaroid of the week: Mermaid fountain in Antigua, Guatemala

Last Updated on June 22, 2022

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Antigua’s Central Park is home to a quite unusual fountain – four mermaids on each side of the fountain are spraying streams of water out of their breasts. The fountain, ‘Fuente de las Sirenas’ in Spanish, was built by Diego de Porres in 1738, who took his inspiration for the fountain from the Neptune Fountain in Bologna, Italy.