Mercury Fountain, Spain

By far not all well-known fountains of the world are characterized by the impressive size. A good example of this is mercury pringing caldera. This tiny fountain, erected in 1937, can be seen in the Juana Miro Museum. The fountain remained open for a couple of years. Later, when the harmfulness of the mercury vapor was proved, the fountain was closed in the special transparent sarcophagus. The author of the most poisonous fountain in the world was the American sculptor Alexander Calder. The opening of the well was dedicated to the workers who have perished on the local mines during the production of mercury.

The author has presented the first fountain model at the World's Fair in Paris. At that time it was not yet assumed how harmful the liquid metal is to human health. It was not until much later, twenty years after the opening, that the fountain was covered with glass. Today the guests of Barcelona can observe the original fountains without damage to their health. The fountain, in which the liquid metal flows instead of the ordinary water, can nowhere be seen in the world. To the beginning - Unisphere