Houses and Streets

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Fountain, Agricultural Casino, Doctor (Forn Square)

Fountain

On July 13, 1907, the square dressed up for a party with the inauguration of the first drinking water fountain in Algímia, which came from the “Conde” Fountain. The font is of modernist inspiration.

To celebrate the arrival of drinking water, a curious procession was organized, which toured the streets of the town. First of all, a cavalcade; then Vicente Perís, whose nickname was “Vicentet del Puig”, promised to lead the bulls without risk if nobody bothered them, which, at a certain distance, followed the cavalcade at a walk; finally, also at a distance, the music band.

Agricultural Casino or Righ wings Casino

Warehouse rented by its owner Benjamín Mestre Salt during the 10s and 20s of the 20th century to the Republicans to make a casino. The disagreements between the members ended when the Republicans made their own casino. Benjamín Mestre Salt then created the Agricultural or Righ wings Casino. Eduardo Fornas Bória took it over in 1960, until it closed in 1975.

Physician Joaquin Berenguer

From the end of the 1920s until 1934, Doctor Joaquín Berenguer lived here, a native of the nearby twon of Benavites. He was a renowned specialist in respiratory diseases, Head of the Provincial Hospital of Valencia, who died in a plane crash while going to a congress in Denmark in 1944. On December 2, 1934, the City Council decided to name the street next to the square after him.