by Susan | May 18, 2026 | Monuments
The Monumento a la Virgen de la Paz is a colossal statue honoring Mary. Made of concrete with a metal infrastructure, it is located seven miles southwest of the city of Trujillo. The statue is 153 feet tall, designed by the Spanish-Venezuelan sculptor Manuel de la...
by Susan | Aug 4, 2025 | Monuments
This monument was a donation by the Spanish community in celebration of the centenary of the Revolución de Mayo of 1810, which marked the formal beginning of Argentina’s independence from Spain. It is made of Carrara marble and bronze. The foundation stone was...
by Susan | May 19, 2025 | Monuments
The Monument to the Three Races — officially, Monument to Goiânia — is in Praça Doutor Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, the civic square of Goiânia, a city of 1.5 million in the Central-West area of Brazil. The bronze and granite monument, 7 meters high, was...
by Susan | May 29, 2023 | Monuments
The Monument was dedicated on June 13th, 1995, in memory of the late Guyanese Historian and activist Dr. Walter Anthony Rodney, for “his indelible contribution to the struggle for National Unity.” Rodney was assassinated in a car bombing in 1980 at the age...
by Susan | May 22, 2023 | Monuments
Bogotanos took the 14,000 firearms collected 2007, melted down on July 9 — International Gun Destruction Day — to create a monument to disarmament in Parque Tercer Milenio, created on the site of El Cartucho, one of the city’s most violent neighborhoods. The...
