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The Princesa Fountain is popularly known as Neptuno Fountain. It was the first urban monument fountain of Zaragoza, the most centric and the main one. The Princesa Fountain was located in the then San Francisco Square and Today España Square. It acted as a water supply until 1902, when it was dismantled to be replaced by the Monument to the Martyrs.

Its first stone was placed in 1833 to commemorate the oath taken by the future Isabel II as heir princess. The sculptural part was carried out by Tomas Llovet, a professor of the School of Fine Arts of Zaragoza. The standing figure of Neptune, with his trident, presides the monument, whilst the water flows into the fountain through the mouths of four dolphins. The image of the God of the seas was inspired by the Fountain of Neptuno in the Madrid Paseo del Prado.