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Parque Colón con el busto, pinturas y barcos

Columbus Park with bust, paintings and ships

Dionisio Peralta
2008

Santiago de los Caballeros / Parque Colón con el busto, pinturas y barcos

Description

Monument including a bust of Columbus (by ???), a wall with paintings of Columbus arrival in America and his meeting with the native Americans (by ???), and sculptures of iron and aluminium of La Niña, La Pinta y La Santa María (by Peralta)

Inscription(s)

On the pedestal of the bust:

PARQUE COLON
construido por
la sociedad amigos del adelantado

primera piedra colocada
el 13 de octubre de 1892

inaugurado el 15 de agosto de 1897
reinaugurado el 10 de julio de 2008

Second plaque:

Ayuntamento de Santiago
PARQUE COLON
José Enrique Sued
Sindico
2006-2010
500 años del Escudo Real de Santiago
1508-2008

Sculptor

Dionisio Peralta, sculptor

Sources & Information

Photo: Jose Kevo, 2 December 2008. See Jose Kevo's's photostream on Flickr.

Locatie (N 19°27'0" - W 70°41'58") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: do007; Added: 29 August 2009 / Updated: 16 January 2011

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