Fuente de Reding
At one end of Príes Avenue in Málaga stands the Fuente de Reding, a marble fountain dating from the seventeenth century. Pilasters frame it on both sides and give it a monumental presence. Water pours from a fish-shaped figurehead, and an inscribed plaque sits above it. The inscription records the reform of the paths that produced the Paseo de Reding and the day the road works ended.
Fernando Carrillo y Manuel, Marquis of Villafiel, commissioned the fountain as part of improvements to the road from Vélez-Málaga. Those works reached completion on 8 February 1675. In 1806 Theodor von Reding, then mayor of Málaga, restored it and added the basin at its foot. It has borne his name ever since that restoration. Juan Giró, an industrialist, bought the surrounding Muriel Estate in 1841 and built his residence, the Giró Estate, nearby. That residence is long gone, but the retaining wall beside the fountain survives. A restoration in 2017 addressed the architectural damage and returned the structure to its original form.
Local painters have long made it a favourite subject. Stand before it and the water still spills from the fish von Reding added in 1806.
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