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La Font del Gat is a source included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia . It is located in the gardens of Laribal , on the slope that goes from the highest part of the gardens to the promenade of Santa Madrona.
The fountain is inside a rough stone arches. As a grower he has the head of a cat carved out by stone by Josep Antoni Homs. It seems that for centuries it has located a source located in the same location.

Gargoyle at the restaurant at Font del Gat
Jardins de Laribal is one of the first public gardens to buy the City Hall in 1908. Since the beginning of the 20th century, it was one of the most frequented snacks with Font del Gat as the center of the meetings. Later, between 1916 and 1919, Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier and Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí restructured the garden
Laribal Garden includes three sectors with differences in level and topography: at the lowest level there are the gardens of Josep Amargós where there is the Teatre Grec, in the intermediate sector we find Font del Gat and the area called Colla de l ' Rice, in the highest level we find the root lettuce.
Subsequently, in 1925, Josep Puig i Cadafalch built next to the fountain a restaurant where great family celebrations such as baptisms or communions could take place. The space presents a enclosed enclosure, in origin was private, through which it is accessed through a portal with a half-point arch at the end of long stairs. In the pine wood an oval panel shows two black symmetrical cats, on the card there is the inscription "1884" and, therefore, prior to the intervention of Puig i Cadafalch.
The building was restored in 2002. At the beginning of the 21st century it once again has the function of restaurant and it houses the headquarters of the Royal Spanish Tennis Federation. At the moment it is the headquarters of the Olympic Studies Center Joan Antoni Samaranch, managed by the Barcelona Olympic Foundation.
The journalist and theatrical author, Joan Amich, dedicated a song to him: La Marieta de l'ull viu , which tells the loves of Marieta with a soldier, and that he practically became a hymn. He also inspired a whistle sung by Pilar Alonso and a comedy performed with great success for Pep Santpere at the Spanish theater.
Indeed, the source of the cat flows to the bottom of a cave and as the popular voice says, it owes its name to that it was found by a cat in 1855, and that's why the source is crowned by the sculpture of this feline Its location, facing north and between leafy trees, made it especially enjoyable for the summer.
On Sundays afternoons there was a dance to the piano piano sound, and according to the urban legend they frequented the place soldiers and bred and all kinds of working class boys and girls, since the bourgeois with their carriages could go abroad Between dance and dance they tasted the food that came to the counter. His fame was so great that the popular Rice Panda made an elegant restaurant very close to the fountain.

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