mujer del cántaro- Castelserás, Aragón, España - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

Esta escultura está instalada en una fuente en una de las plazas más bonitas, junto al antiguo puente romano que cruza el río Guadalope y del que recogían sus aguas los aldeanos.

Esta obra es un homenaje a aquellas mujeres de la antigüedad, que debían ir a buscar agua para la familia, cuando no había agua potable en las casas. Siempre llevaban el cántaro sobre su cabeza. Este momento del día les servía de excusa para entablar conversación y charlar sobre sus cosillas. Las mujeres con el cántaro en la cabeza son todo un símbolo de la tradición popular en los pueblos bajoaragoneses pues muchos chismes, cotilleos y amoríos se resolvían en estas situaciones.

Es una escultura realizada en arcilla cocida, fue inaugurada en el año 1991.

[EN] An artist named Juan José Vaquero Foz lived and was born in this town, a painter and sculptor who wanted to donate some of his works to his town as a legacy before his death.

This sculpture is installed in a fountain in one of the most beautiful squares, next to the old Roman bridge that crosses the Guadalope River and from which the villagers collected their water.

This work is a tribute to those women of antiquity, who had to go get water for the family, when there was no drinking water in the houses. They always carried the pitcher on their head. This time of day served as an excuse to start a conversation and chat about their little things. The women with the pitcher on their heads are a symbol of popular tradition in the Bajo Aragonese towns, since many gossips, gossip and love affairs were resolved in these situations.

It is a sculpture made of baked clay, it was inaugurated in 1991.