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Vaillancourt Fountain

Vaillancourt Fountain, sometimes called Québec libre, is a large fountain in in , designed by the Québécois artist Armand Vaillancourt in collaboration with the plaza's landscape architect, Lawrence Halprin, and completed in 1971.
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Photo: Enoch Lai, Public domain.
  • Type: Work of art
  • Artwork_type: sculpture
  • Description: fountain in San Francisco
  • Also known as: “Quebec Libre”

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Financial District and San Francisco Transbay development.

Quarter
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Neighborhood
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Vaillancourt Fountain

Latitude
37.79542° or 37° 47′ 44″ north
Longitude
-122.39533° or 122° 23′ 43″ west
Inception
1971
Open location code
849VQJW3+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27146056
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­fountain
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­water
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­artwork
Open­Street­Map attribute
artwork_type=­sculpture
Wiki­data ID
Q3076099
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In Other Languages

From French to Spanish—“Vaillancourt Fountain” goes by many names.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vaillancourt Fountain”. Photo: Enoch Lai, Public domain.