Willendorf

Willendorf is the small region named the Paleolithic Venus: the Venus of Willendorf. That figure of bulging breasts and protruding belly is a symbol of fertility. Since my university days I never found the "Mother of the West". A grandmother of 22,000 years old. Well, she actually had to look in the neoclassical Museum of Natural History in Vienna. Down by the Danube on my right was the village, then of course nonexistent, named after the ancient valley. After channeling the river, only the imagination can restore the place and given that the photo is taken from the boat and the river before reaching