It is on the ground floor of the house with its main facade towards the Plaça de Sant Agustí Vell[2] and placed on the corner of Carders and Tantarantana streets (below which the Rec Comtal is used to feed the fountain).

[5] The first preserved vestiges of fountains located in roads or public buildings come from the Middle Ages, when the city was part of the Crown of Aragon.

The city area grew from the primitive urban core - what is today the Barri Gòtic - and in the 14th century the Raval neighborhood emerged.

[6] Until the beginning of the last century, the water came out of a cat's head, which is why it was called Font del Gat, to distinguish it from the one on the other side of the square (more modern Canaletes style ).

The name Marieta de l'ull viu is given as a memory of Marieta who, according to the tradition of the neighborhood, was born in Carrer Portal Nou, without ever leaving the district and that the lyrics "descending from the font del gat, a girl and a soldier" would have to say "passing by the fountain of the gat..." because near the square there was (until a few years ago, converted into a recruit box) the military barracks built on the Convent of Sant Agustí, demolished by order of Philip V, for having been a center of strong resistance in the Barri de Ribera in 1714.