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The fountains adorning the city today were originally built to provide water − yet another unusual fact about San Miguel.
Some are simple concave stone carvings into walls; others are quite a bit more elaborate, such as the fountain dedicated to Francisco I. Madero, on the corner of Mesones and Hernández Macías, next to Teatro Angela Peralta. There are too many to name here, but some of the standouts include the fountain on Calle Ancha de San Antonio, near the Instituto Allende; the one on the corner of Puente de las Animas and Callejón del Cardo, the Fuente Escuadrón 2001, on the corner of Barranca and Hospicio; the one behind the parish church on the corner of Calle de Cuadrante and Aldama; and the one on the corner of Quebrada and Insurgentes, popularly known as Fuente de la Piedra Parada, or "fountain of the standing rock." And some fountains live on only in city chronicles, such as Las Monjas, a classical sculpture from 1848, the Colonial, and the Sirena.
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