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Cruce de Arinaga
(Agüimes)
Gran Canaria

Avenida Ansite / GC-191 (rotonda - GC-191 Sur)

Levantamiento del Arado

Rising Plows

Wency Herrera García
2002

Cruce de Arinaga / Levantamiento del Arado

Description

Bronze sculpture of a man lifting a plow on a long pole.

Cruce de Arinaga - Levantamiento del Arado

Juegos tradicionales / Traditional Games

At the main roundabout of Cruce de Arinaga are four sculpture groups showing traditional games:

South: Levantamiento del Arado / Rising Plows, by Paco Suárez Díaz.
East: Levantamiento de Piedras / Rising Stones, by Wency Herrera García.
North: Juego del Palo / Game of Sticks, by José Luis Marrero.
West: Lucha Canaria / Canarian Wrestling, by José Luis Marrero.

We did not check the sculptures for signatures, because the traffic was too heavy to cross over to the center of the roundabout.
For information on the various games, see the artcile 'Deportes y juegos de Canarias' at Wikipedia.

Sculptor

Wenceslao 'Wency' Herrera García, Spanish sculptor.

Sources & Information

Esculturas en Gran Canaria, Agüimes
La Estrella que nos guia, Esculturas de Agüimes.
Ayuntamiento de Agüimes, Patrimonio Cultural: Museo al aire libre.

Locatie (N 27°52'32" - W 15°25'31") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca067; Photograph: 5 January 2015
Of each statue we made photos from various angles and also detail photos of the various texts.
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