Street art · Barcelona
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La Ben Plantada
By Eloïsa Cerdan
Tucked beneath leafy trees in a quiet Barcelona park, this elongated stone woman gazes into the distance — 'La Ben Plantada,' Eloïsa Cerdan's 1961 nod to Eugeni d'Ors's ideal of Catalan feminine grace, rendered in a Modernist, Noucentista-inspired fi
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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