An Array of Freshness - Fuente Tarascas

Source: Roberto Fiadone [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Morelia can boast of all the visual pieces of architecture that a place can have. One of the most famous one being the Fuente Tarascas also known as Fuente Las Tarascas Fountain. It is the city’s most amazing fountain- it is a sculpture made from bronze which portrays three women carrying a fruit basket above their heads. It is to be believed that these three women represent the three princesses namely- Atzimba, Erendira, and Tzetzangari. The construction of the first fountain was started in 1931, by the orders of the then municipal president of Morelia. The structure was built under the guidance of Anton Silva Diaz and Benigno Lara.

The bronze sculpture that we can admire today was built throughout 1983 and was completed in 1984. It is the work of famed sculptor Jose Luis Padilla Retana, who made them in bronze, using as a face model a woman from the island Yunuén, and the body based on his imagination, according to him, he settled in an interview with La Voz de Michoacán in August 2009. They were placed in their place on May 18, 1984, as recorded in the local press and on a plaque alluding to the fact in the basement of the sculpture. Like the originals, it has no documented meaning. There is no explanation of why its shape, the position of women, the nudity, the fruits in the basket.

After a long time of being a fundamental part of the decoration of the city, it is said that in the year of 1967, the wife of the former governor of the state Agustin Arriaga Rivera, asked to remove them, because she considered outrageous they were naked, contrary to the rumor about the fact of having been sent to Spain, "Las Tarascas" original (color) moved to the former facilities of the fair, and instead placed the source that today we know as "The Huarache", however, it was only a little time since people asked the sculpture to be returned to its place of origin, it is so in the year of 1968, the state government made the decision to build an exact replica of bronze, which was liked even more than the original. Water jets give freshness to the quarry fountain during the day, and at night the three natives who, according to literature symbolize Tzintzuntzan, Patzcuaro, and Morelia, are illuminated, sometimes with tones alluding to a specific campaign, as a complement of an architectural complex that begins with the Aqueduct and extends to the heart of the Historic Center.

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