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The Giraldillo, Seville

Copy of the Giraldillo, descent of your place at the beginning of 2006 to place the original, can visit to him, is placed level with the earth in one of the doors of the cathedralThe Giraldillo is the popular name that receives the sculpture that crowns the weathercock of Seville, whose real name is to triumph ( or colossus ) of the victorious faith. Also is calls you erroneously Joan female saint.The Giraldillo, the vane that crowns the weathercock is a feminine figure expert in the Renaissance that represents “la victoriosa” faith,although the weathercock also is feminine it knows one another to the vane with the masculine article, according to the Lord Romero “quizás for the engagement of the interior”. The figure is composed of bronze and an inside mechanism of iron that it has been |sustituiod| for other of stainless steel. The vane that executes the whole, known as “El Giraldillo” symbolize the victory of the carried out Christian faith between 1566-1568. The sculpture of the crest is of four meters, more than seven meters with the pedestal. It deals with of a vane it turns around moved for the wind. This quality of revolving did that it is to call popularly weathercock to the whole building, by remaining the Giraldillo name for the vane.The Renaissance related figure represents to a pregnant woman with tunic and a war shield in a hand. symbolize the faith and the hope.

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