[1] Tradition has that the one who drinks from the Font de Canaletes will come back to Barcelona, as the inscription on the floor suggests.

The original fountain from the 18th century came from a deposit located in the Torre de Sant Sever of the old medieval walls, which supplied the area of Las Ramblas and the Raval.

It had a cistern that already received the name of Canaletes, perhaps because of the multiple channels that from here provided to diverse fountains of the zone.

In 1888 the City Council of Barcelona agreed to replace it with another definitive fountain, in the whole of a project of four fountains-lampposts located in different parts of the city, a project that was commissioned to Pere Falqués.

Subsequently, the project was expanded to fourteen fountains, commissioned to Jaume Rodelles.