The fountain symbolize the three seas which bathe the Iberian Peninsula and the three hydrographical basins which flow into them. The sculptural groups, six meters high, are done in bronze and are the work of sculptor Miquel Blay.

The work rises in the center of the square, over a small hill were the cross that signaled the end of the road to Madrid used to stand, called Creu Coberta, which gave origin to the name of the main street in the Sants quarter that stems from the square.

I like this fountain very much because almost every day I see this monument when I am in the bus.