2023-07-30 16:03:40
The owner of the bar did not want to leave the upper steps which adorn the fountain, abandoned on the ground. He feared a theft of metals. Its upper ornament, a small bronze statue of a water carrier, is split. With a friend, he transported the imposing piece of the fountain using a hand truck, to put it under cover in his establishment. “The police asked me to keep it.” The city should come and collect it. Beyond the news item, the merchant sees in this fountain in pieces, the symbol “of a carelessness in the historic center of Liège.”
There remain in Liège, 5 examples of these historic Montefiore fountains which at the beginning of the last century served as public drinking troughs for men and animals.
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