Statues from your country

[Comte Arnau]

Post here pictures of nice/interesting statues from your country.

(Remember that statues are sculptures of a certain size representing people, animals or both together)

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I inaugurate the thread with these four statues in the Font del Centenari, a fountain in Tarragona's Rambla or central boulevard with four statues built in 1954 to represent the four cardinal points and races of the world:





· the North or Europe, the White Man, the Bear




· the South or Africa, the Black Man, the Hippo




· the East or Asia, the Yellow Man, the Elephant




· the West or America, the Red Man, the Crocodile

[Treffie]

The Leaf (in my town)

The glass leaf sculpture by local artist Amber Hiscott is the centrepiece of Castle Square and was unveiled on the 27th November 1996. The inscription around the pool edge comes from Dylan Thomas's Rain cuts the place we tread and reads, "We sail a boat upon the path, paddle with leaves, down an ecstatic line of light."

[Veneda]

Jan III Sobieski Statue, Warsaw






Nicolaus Copernicus

[Damião de Góis]

Another interesting thread

Here is the poet Bocage in his home town Setúbal:




And some from Lisbon:

Marquis of Pombal


D. José I



Chiado (poet)



Pessoa in his favourite café



Camões


D. João I



Cristo Rei, on the other side of the river:



and of course..

[Corraidh]

Winston Churchill statue in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[Treffie]

Now here's a statue in my town, as opposed to a sculpture. No, I think they're still sculptures

Dylan Thomas



Captain Cat (one of Thomas' characters)

[Styggnacke]

From my hometown:

Monument for the Battle of Lund


Statue of Esaias Tegnér

[Waidewut]

[Damião de Góis]

A few more,

Nuno Alvares Pereira at Batalha



D. Afonso Henriques at Guimarães



Vasco da Gama at Sines



Viriato at Viseu



Colombus at Cuba

[lepa]

It's the most famous statue in my city and it's very ugly (after all it's from the commie era).