The Almuñécar barrio of La Paloma – that’s the one across the main road from the P-4 – will soon have a bloody-great, stone pigeon as a monument-cum-sculpture.

The sculpture is the work of a municipal employee, José Cabrera, who also designed the Octopus roundabout sculpture, we believe.

Now, you might be wondering why La Paloma estate is getting a heavy-duty, avian addition, well it’s because it’s to celebrate the end of all the roadworks that have been going on there: they’ve got new plumbing, new water mains, so why not a petrified pigeon, indeed.

It’s not the first monument that this VPO (subsidised housing) urbanización has had, though, because there was a plaster one by the local artist, Paco Moya, but it didn’t last very long – plaster normally doesn’t when exposed to the elements.

So, congrats to La Paloma for its new sculpture and long may it last!

(News: Almunecar, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)