FOUNTAIN OF THE WEEK

Fuente de la Fama, Campo Grande, Valladolid

One of several notable fountains in this particularly nice city centre park, this has Fame blowing her trumpet (and a thin stream of water), surrounded by several more vigorous sprays. The overall design of the fountain is by Antonio Iturralde Montel, who placed her on a plinth emerging from an octagonal basin, and the figure of Fame herself is a conventional bronzework by the sculptor Mariano Chicote Recio. It was erected in 1882 to commemorate the recent death of the city mayor, Miguel Íscar Juárez, whose nearby statue reveals a man with the most magnificent handlebar moustache. Well worth blowing your trumpet over.