Monumento a Rodrigo de Triana
Monumento a Rodrigo de Triana stands in a small plaza in Seville, Spain, as a public sculpture dedicated to a sailor of La Pinta. José Lemus created the present statue in 1973. Rodrigo grips the ship’s main mast, points to his left, and opens his mouth to announce “¡Tierra!”. The pedestal carries that same word.
The scene recalls 12 October 1492, when Rodrigo reportedly spotted land during Christopher Columbus’s first Atlantic voyage. More than two months at sea had left La Pinta’s crew exhausted. Seville’s 1929 Ibero-American Exposition inspired a tradition of commemorating explorers in public plazas across the city. An earlier version stood elsewhere from 1940 until deterioration led to its removal in 1962. Researchers have linked him with Juan Rodríguez Bermejo and Seville’s Triana neighbourhood, though the identification remains debated. The carved cry fixes the sculpture on one instant of discovery.
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