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In this photograph for Las Fotos de los Lectores de La Vanguardia, captured on the Balcón del Mediterráneo of the Passeig de les Palmeres in Tarragona, we can see a curious scene in the Boy with Goose pond, where the pigeon has found and learned to drink from trickle of water coming out of the goose.
As we can see, this artistic and ornamental bird-shaped fountain attracts birds, which quench their thirst by taking advantage of its water jet.
When the Passeig de les Palmeres, then called Paseo Calvo Sotelo, was inaugurated in 1946, it was decided to install a pond with a sculptural spring, the work of the sculptor Josep Pujol Montané (Torredembarra, 1893 - 1978), which evokes the best-known work of Hellenistic sculptor Boet of Chalcedonia.
It is about a child holding a goose by the neck, from whose beak water flows, as we see in the photographs.
The truth is that this is not the original sculpture, since, in 1948, some English sailors who arrived in Tarragona destroyed the work of Josep Pujol, which was made of baked clay.
It was then decided to place a replica, but this time it was made by Ignasi Pallàs and in more resistant marble. In addition, a piece of a Roman column kept in the municipal warehouses was used for the material.
