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The conservation treatment of the main fountain of the Casa de Pilatos has been completed.

10 January 2011

With the restoration of the two-headed Janus head, a Roman piece from the Flavian period (last third of the 1st century) derived from an archaising Greek model of Hermes from the 5th or 4th centuries BC, which has crowned the fountain in the main courtyard of the Casa de Pilatos since the 18th century, the project to conserve the fountain, which began just over a year ago, has been completed. The fountain was made in 1529 in Genoa, commissioned by the 1st Marquis of Tarifa on his return from Jerusalem, in the workshop of the Aprile family, and was originally topped by the figure of a satyr.