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For 23 years, the fish fountain in the Plaza de la Iglesia has been an important symbol of unity and strength. The artwork created in 1965 was affectionately known by locals as the 'Fountain of the Girls'. That was the nickname for the eight young women who took the initiative to make this eye-catcher possible at the church. Their need for tangible proof of unity and strength to the people of Pilar was not so strange. At the time, Pilar was little more than a hamlet that lived under the wing of the parent community of Orihuela.
The urge to be independent from Orihuela was realized in 1986. It was therefore wrong to many residents that the symbolic fountain was destroyed only two years later as part of a reconstruction of the Plaza de la Iglesia.
The 'Fountain of the Girls' was only given a second chance in 2015. A faithful copy of the original has since stood in a less prominent place in the municipality, on Avenida Camilo Jose Cela. All these years after the destruction of the symbol of unity and strength, the original idea behind the fountain has finally been restored.
