El Viajero
Monument that lies silent
This is one of those statues that is silent, like an ornament on the pavement of a square. It is on the stairs to the plaza Third of Flanders, facing the sea. On one side, without a gazebo or the enhancement yard and a white mask that the landscape is logical that seems kind of hidden, placed there as they did not know where to put it. And yet, there are few things that deserve much honor in San Fernando as the marsh, the man ve made possible the existence of the city, without which the population may have succumbed to one of the famines of the past. San Fernando is surrounded by marshes and wetlands have fed San Fernando when the need has tightened.
All the mouth of the Guadalquivir is a huge marsh. Almost all of it protected in the National Park of Doñana. However, just look out the window when you go to Cadiz to see salt on the sides of the road, marsh transformed into salt factory. Humble people of San Fernando overturned in the marshes. Clams, crabs now threatened by the invasion of the American crayfish, razor clams, snails, shrimp, cockles, mussels. Marsh is represented here, on a background of stones that resemble marine rocks. With her basket and pertrecho, fine dress shirt, waterproof pants and boots, his characteristic attire. I truly believe that this character deserves a little more attention. It is the people, the representation of ground marine San Fernando, monument inaugurated on September 13th 1982 and placed in a crossing like this bother recent past.
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