The Fountain of Anho (Fonte do Anho) is located on the uncovered terrace or Passadiço of the Monastery of Saint Martinho of Tibães on the North of Portugal. This great Monastery, Main House of the Congregation of São Bento of the Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil, was erected on the XVII and XVIII centuries in the place of the ancient Medieval Monastery. The whole of the Monastery belongs the Portuguese State and is being the object of a careful and scrupulous recuperation in order to revitalize it as a cultural and religious centre. In the renewal of the Fountain of Anho , built on 1734, it is essential the recording of its placement before this intervention, placement which one can analyse in this model. The fountain presents an inscription with the following saying: “AD FONTEM QUICUMQUE SITIS ACCEDE BENIGNUM HAUD UNDA NOCET DEFLUIT UNDE VIDE”, which means “Whomever you are, approach the benign fountain. This water is not harmful. See where it emanates from.”
Video animation using photogrammetry software (click on image for detail):