Monumento a Alexandre Bóveda - Ourense, Galicia, España - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

This monument is dedicated to the teacher, politician and writer Alexandre Bóveda, forerunner of the Galician Statute of Autonomy, who was shot during the Franco regime, becoming a martyr.

The monument was sculpted by Buciños, and placed here on the occasion of the centenary of his birth (2003)

It is a kind of column that two people are embracing and trying to climb.

Originally it was not a column, but rather a trunk from which small branches of hope sprouted, but an act of vandalism has annihilated them and they are not replaced.

It has a plaque with words of the writer Castelao that put:
"Bóveda terá que ser, nun mañán próximo ou lonxano, a bandeira da nosa redención"

en: "Bóveda will have to be, in the near or distant morning, the banner of our redemption"

new of desaparition of the branches: (visit link)

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Homenaje a Alexandre Bóveda Figure Type: Other Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Buciños Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 2003 Materials used: bronze Location: Not listed

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Date Logged Log User Rating   03/17/2022 Ariberna visited it