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MONUMENTS
| Housewife Monument |
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The importance the Housewives Association has in the town entailed a plan that become the elegant stone statue dominating the Plaza da Concordia (Concord Square). In the centre of the roundabout at the entrance of the fish market area; a circle of grass, landscaped with leafy bushes, holds this monument. It consists of a standing woman in waiting pose, her back leaned against a side of the frame over her. |
| It is a memorial for all women who in the past, present and future live through tense moments waiting for her partner, absent for working reasons, or clearer and generally in Riveira, because of the sea. |
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| Armada Monument |
Riveira |
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This recently inaugurated memorial (2002) intends to pay tribute to the Spanish Armada. It makes up a huge black anchor resting on a sober granite; and it is placed in a corner of Pedra Pateira Park, visible from the road. This one meant the second monument included in these gardens, turning them into a tourist point unavoidable for the visitor as well as a rich green areas to be enjoyed by Riveira´s people themselves. |
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| Dorna Monument |
Riveira |
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A dorna is a vessel closely linked to the progress of Riveira city since its humble sailor origin; that is why it deserves a tribute like the one given by Pedra Pateira Park, beside the circle fountain in the middle of the place. A full-size stone copy of a dorna underlines the importance of the park since this memorial was inaugurated. |
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Emigrant Monument |
Palmeira |
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This sculpture was erected on the top of O Castelo Rock, by the Palmeira parish quay. There are some steps leading to a terrace, over the rocks, where this beautiful stone memorial stands. It was inaugurated in 1998. Three human figures represent a bittersweet family scene: the man pointing at far land and looking at his wife, who try to glimpse the future horizont, while the child strains to climb the pedestal trying to reach his father, of whom it will only stay his absence for a long time. |
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Aguiño |
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The Sailor Monument is by the Aguiño wharf, on a wide base covered with grass. It was inaugurated on the holy day of Carmen, in 1995. It pays tribute to the fishermen represented by sculpted fishermen figures, playing a daily working scene: pulling back the nets thrown to the sea. |
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| Siren Monument |
Riveira |
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Original statue placed at the centre of the roundabout in 9 Agosto Street, in St. Eugenia Riveira. It welcomes pedestrians and vehicles coming down from Cubeliños or Fafián to the city centre. This kind of stone guardian also watches over the way into Rosalia Castro Street from the top of a stone tower 3 m. high. The sculpted bare woman figure throwing her legs round a willowy long-tailed dolphin symbolizes the joining between marine animal and female: a siren. The presence of this mythological being in Riveira goes back to certain legends. The new statue erected in Santa Eugenia in 2003 means, moreover, a self-reference to the other siren in the borough, the one that, warm and majestic, receives the visitors in the pier of the Salvora island.
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| Holy Heart of Jesus Monument Riveira |
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Inaugurated in 1965, in times of the parish priest Juan Bautista Boo Romero, whose remains are buried in the lower part. The monument is placed in the top of a sloping garden, in a high area of the city centre; there is a chapel in the building base, and a tower with a stone stature 2.5 m. tall of Jesus Christ on top. Landscaped surroundings complete the memorial, which goes on standing out and it can be glimpsed from many places throughout the Riveira centre area, in spite of being rounded by high flats. |
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