Fuente de La Cuerna

The Fuente de La Cuerna is a hydraulic heritage resource of Olivenza (Badajoz), identified as an old cistern or fountain-cistern linked to the traditional water supply of the municipality. In the local tourist documentation it also appears associated with an old washing place, which confirms its functional character within the historical network of fountains, wells and pipes of the town. It is part of the so-called Olivenza Water Route, a heritage itinerary that connects fountains, irrigation ditches, subway channels and springs preserved in the urban and periurban landscape. Its value lies more in popular engineering and in the memory of the communal use of water than in monumental architecture per se. The sources consulted do not give a precise date of construction or a defined architectural style, so it should be described cautiously as a work of traditional hydraulic heritage, probably of modern or contemporary historical chronology, without further documentary evidence. Its exact location, at coordinates 38.68889, -7.09815, places it in the patrimonial environment of Olivenza, a town with a strong historical and monumental heritage.