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Return to Gernika: Henry Moore, The Nations of Europe and the Oak in Leaf

6/6/2013

 
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I’ve written about Gernika in a previous post. We’ve now been four times to this very poignant and interesting town, and to the nearby fishing village of Mundaka. On our recent visits to Gernika we went to see the memorial park on the hill above the town, which we had not had time to do previously.

The park (opened in 1987 for the 50th anniversary of the bombing) is known as the Parque de los Pueblos de Europa, and is intended to act as a memorial to the bombing of Gernika and other bombed cities by celebrating the post-war European peace. The summit of the park is marked by a graceful, though unfortunately somewhat graffiti-ridden, Henry Moore statue called ‘Large Figure in a Shelter’:
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There’s also a Chillida sculpture called ‘Our Father’s House’ (‘Gure aitaren etxea’), whose main 'window' looks out towards the Oak Tree of Gernika: not Chillida at his best, but nevertheless an interesting monument.
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Here too are some more pictures of the Oak of Gernika, now that Spring has come and the leaves are out:
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And here are some more pictures of the nearby beautiful village of Mundaka on the Urdaibai estuary:
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