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Maspalomas
(San Bartolomé de Tirajana)
Gran Canaria

Plaza del Faro

Noche, homenaje a Nèstor

Night, tribute to Nèstor

La Noche: niño cabalgando a una morena (The Night: Child riding a Morene).
Fuente de la Morena (Morene Fountain)

Benito Valladares
2000

Description

Bronze sculpture of a morene (sea-snake) with a boy sitting behind his head, standing in a the center of a fountain. The sculpture was intended to pay homage to the Canarian painter Néstor Martín-Fernández de la Torre.
But it is also told that the sculptor wanted to emulate in some way in the tourist city of Meloneras, the 'Girl with Dolphin', which is next to the Tower bridge of London, and others that appear in the big European cities and, that in turn mimic the 'Eros riding a dolphin'.

Maspalomas - Fuente de la Morena

Sculptor

Benito Valladares, Spanish sculptor in Bilbao (Website).

Sources & Information

Esculturas en Gran Canaria, San Bartolomé de Tirajana (information no longer found here).
Blog El Miano de Maspalomas, 28 november 2016 (information no longer found here).
Information by the sculptor, 3 April 2023.

Locatie (N 27°44'8" - W 15°35'57") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca171; Photograph: 8 January 2015 / updated: 3 April 2023
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