Monumento a la Raza

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Monumento a la raza, raze monument, located in La Alpujarra, the public square of Medellin, Colombia, where the building of the Gobernacion de Antioquia (Antioquia management and government building) is located. Incidental people walking in the sq...

Rodrigo Arenas Betancur, Colombia's favorite designer of monuments, has a number of pieces around Medellín, but the most impressive work is this one in front of the municipal building that tells the story of Antioquia in dramatically twisting metal.

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