Ain El Fouara Fountain

Ain El Fouara Fountain is an emblematic and famous monument of Setif in Algeria. This Fountain become found out by means of the French sculptor Francis de Saint-Vidal. It was to start with a simple fountain built around a spring by way of the Military engineering after the career of Setif. Its water turned into warm all through winter and sparkling in summer time.

But its revolutionary deterioration obliged the municipal council to consider its recuperation. Especially M. Bastide, councilor, who addressed the difficulty of the reparation of the fountain in 1894. Two years later in 1896, the mayor of Setif, M. Aubry, throughout a experience in Paris, asked the director of “Les Beaux-Arts” to donate a statue in an effort to be used for the ornament of the fountain. In 1898, the mayor obtained a letter informing him that the statue made by using Francis de Saint-Vidal changed into equipped. The established order of the statue and all paintings was finished in 1899. On 22 April 1997, the statue was damaged in a bomb blast blamed on Islamists and on 28 February 2006 an Islamist damaged the statue with a hammer.