The Fountain of Néréides or Fuente of mow Nereidas to Buenos Aires is a work of the Argentinian sculptrice Lola Mora, representing the birth of Venus. It is carved out of Carrara marble (Italy) and was inaugurated the May 21st 1903.

It is a very great sculpture where one can see Venus leaving a large marine valve supported by his father Jupiter, and surrounded by completely stripped Néréides centered towards the central scene.

It was intended for the Plaza of Mayo, but stripped statues caused a great agitation and an intense polemic, following what one placed it on the Avenida Leandro NR. Alem , where it remained during fifteen years. One then transferred it on the Costanera On to the limit from the district from Puerto Madero and from the ecological Réserve from Buenos Aires. Its current localization is Avenida Tristán Achával Rodríguez 1550 .

By order in Council, the statue was declared National Historic building in 1997.

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