Monument sights in León
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El Tamarindón
El Tamarindón is a huge tree where Adiáct, cacique (chief) of the Subtiava tribe during the Spanish conquest, was unceremoniously hung so his people would see him as weak. It didn't work, and today 'The Big Tamarindo' is a rallying point for indigenous locals, who placed a plaque there in 2003 that declares 'This tree was the cross of he who is our light,' and they sure as heck weren't talking about Jesus. There are a few benches underneath and a market every third Sunday in April.
It's a solid 20-minute walk or a taxi ride to Subtiava from the León cathedral, or you can take one of the covered trucks plying the streets. Catch a Subtiava-bound truck at the southwest cor…
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Parque Rubén Darío
Another Dario monument is in the Parque Rubén Darío, which has a statue of the master. Only the busts of other, lesser Leónese poets, including Alfonso Cortés (1893-1969), Azarias H Pallais (1884-1954) and Salomon de la Selva (1893-1959), are found here and all are accompanied by verses.
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