The San Isidro Labrador Fountain is located in the historic center of Guaro, very close to City Hall and the Church of San Miguel Arcángel.
Traditionally, the milestone known as Fuentezuela was a stopping point and meeting place for farmers, haymakers, sharecroppers, and muleteers, who used its water to give their animals a drink after a long day’s work in the fields or while traveling with their merchandise and other goods along the region’s roads. In the 1950s, the number of ox teams and domestic animals increased, creating a need to expand the structure that had previously been used as a watering trough; and that is the origin of the current fountain.
In the beginning, it was a long pillar with two streams of water flowing naturally down it, set apart from the houses surrounding the area. Since it was used as a watering trough, washing clothes and performing other household chores typical of that era was prohibited.
Before homes had their own running water supply, residents would get their water from the fountain located on one side of the current City Hall building, and the public washrooms were located on the ground floor.
No one remembers the origin of the fountain’s dedication to Saint Isidore the Farmer, the patron saint of Spanish farmers, nor who dedicated it or why they proposed it; and this unique aspect gives it added value and serves as a tribute to one of the region’s main traditional economic activities.
Every year, during the pilgrimage in his honor, the procession that winds its way from the church to the outskirts of town—the point where the journey truly begins— stops at the fountain, its waters imbued with the spirit of faith, popular piety, and festive joy that fills the town of Guaro every May 15.
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