route 16 Urban green route

This sculpture of the Galician playwright and poet Valle-Inclán is made in bronze by the sculptor César Lombera and has been on the Paseo de los Leones in the Alameda park in Santiago since January 1999.
It is a sculpture that perfectly represents the writer’s way of being, since Valle-Inclán himself sat on that bench to admire the Cathedral when he lived in Santiago. Many tourists take advantage of this sculpture to take a photo with the writer and also admire the views from the same place from which he did.
As a curiosity: the writer’s bronze glasses are welded from time to time when they are periodically torn off by vandals.