El Rapto de Europa - Jupiter's Moon Europa - Rincón de la Victoria, Spain
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The sculpture "El Rapto de Europa" is located in the gardens surrounding Fort Bezmiliana in Rincon de la Victoria.
Waymark Code: WMKH2A
Location: Andalucía, Spain
Date Posted: 04/14/2014
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This monumental sculpture (3.25 m height and 2600 kg) by José Seguiri depicts Europa and the bull (Zeus), recreating one of the most famous mythological legends of antiquity.
The plaque relates the legend (in Spanish). It reads:
Un día Zeus vio a Europa jugando en la playa de Sidón. Inflamado de amor por su belleza, se transforma en un toro blanco y se sienta a los pies de la doncella. Ésta después de vencer el susto inicial tras comprobar la mansedumbre del animal, lo acaricia y acaba por montar a sus lomos, momento que aprovecha el falso toro para lanzarse al mar y dirigirse velozmente a Creta. Allí se une con la joven junto a una fuente, bajo una platanera, que en memoria de estos amores obtiene el privilegio de no perder nunca las hojas.
Jupiter's Moon Europa
Europa is the sixth-closest moon of the planet Jupiter, and the smallest of its four Galilean satellites, but still the sixth-largest moon in the Solar System. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and possibly independently by Simon Marius around the same time. Progressively better observations of Europa have occurred over the centuries by Earth-bound telescopes, and by space probe flybys starting in the 1970s. Wikipedia
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