Fuente de los Leones

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Plaza del Pópulo is also known as Plaza de los Leones after the Fuente de los Leones at its centre. The fountain is made of carvings from the Ibero-Roman village of Cástulo and is topped by a statue reputed to represent Imilce, an Iberian princess and one of the wives of the Carthaginian general Hannibal.

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