Monumento Los Pegasos
Trio of winged fiberglass horses on a historic waterfront pier, one bearing a sculptor's hidden family tribute.
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This guide to Monumento Los Pegasos in Cartagena starts with a puzzle: why does the smallest of the three winged horses overlooking the Bay of las Animas carry a word etched into its leg that almost nobody notices? It traces sculptor Hector Lombana's 1992 replacements for the city's long-vanished originals, and the private reason he tucked something personal into the fiberglass. You'll also hear how that same leg became a story of its own, decades after it was carved.
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