On this manhole cover is the coat of arms of Ourense.
The funny thing is that we are in the province of Pontevedra, not Ourense.
We are in Baiona.
How would it come? flying? scrap? We had some left over from a city in Gaul 1h 20m away by car and we decided to put it here?
"The coat of arms of Ourense appears on a field of silver, on waves of azure and silver representing a flow of water, a bridge with five golden arches, topped on its right by a crenellated golden castle, masoned in sable and cleared in gules and on its left, a rampant lion, armed, clawed and tongued in gold, raising in its right hand a sword of the same metal, and in the center of the chief of the shield a closed royal crown. The shield is topped with another closed royal crown, lined in gules, or red, which is a circle of gold, set with precious stones, composed of eight fleurons of acanthus leaves, five visible, interpolated with pearls and from each of its leaves emerge five diadems topped with pearls that converge on an azure world, with the semimeridian and the equator in gold, topped with a gold cross"
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