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Font dels Setze Xorros(Vilallonga)

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Built in 1913, located in the main square of Villalonga, it has 16 spouts distributed in 3 basins. Some years later, a column crowned by a statue symbolising justice was added, and it was demolished in 1931 during the Second Republic. In 1951, the "font dels setze Xorros" (fountain of the seven jets) was inaugurated during the patron saint festivities (October). It has a flow that can reach up to 6000 litres per minute, supplying the market garden and its population. The town of Vilallonga commemorates the "miracle of the fountain" that in 1708, according to tradition, Senent Pla, a charcoal burner from Villalonga, found the image of the Virgin floating in a box in the river Serpis. In 1712, the charcoal burner placed the image of the Virgin on a fountain that supplied water to the town during a period of drought, after which water gushed out. Since then, this miracle has been celebrated and given its name as the Virgen de la Fuente (Virgin of the Fountain).

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