O Mouchiño - Ourense, Galicia, España
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N 42° 20.244 W 007° 51.888
29T E 593516 N 4687862
Faun riding an owl over comic plaques
Waymark Code: WM13EFT
Location: Galicia, Spain
Date Posted: 11/23/2020
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"The area of ??the childhood games of many Ourensens, including the author, is honored by Xaime Quessada in this sculpture, a faun riding an owl, a mouchiño , made in bronze on a stone pedestal. On the floor, small bronze plaques are reminiscent of well-known characters, protagonists of the comics that were bought in the kiosks and read and exchanged between friends in this place."
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This bronze statue of a faun on the owl playing the aulos, is on a column of four meters of marble.
They wanted to pay tribute to comic characters, some of whom have their name plaque on the floor.
The author Xaime Quessada (1937-2007) was a well-known artist from Ourense, who, among other paintings, made the ceiling of the main theater.
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