Basins and Fountains

For a long time, the inhabitants of Mougins, a village perched on its hilltop, had to make do with a rudimentary water supply provided by two more or less large cisterns (one on Place du Peyrou and the other on Place des Mûriers), a water tower (on Rue des Lombards), and a single well located at the heart of the old village, on Place du Commandant Lamy, near the site of the current fountain.
In the early years, water from the Horts de la Salle spring—at the bottom of Avenue du Moulin de la...