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Monument to the Battle of El Bruc

el Bruc, Anoia, Barcelona

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Monument to the Battle of El Bruc

Monument · el Bruc, Anoia, Barcelona

Public sculpture commemorating the Battle of the Bruc of 1808, in which local militiamen confronted Napoleonic troops, declared a Bien Cultural de Interés Nacional (Catalonia's highest level of heritage protection). The work of sculptor Frederic Marès, carved from a single block of stone in 1952, it depicts the legendary timbaler, a young drummer born in Santpedor whose drumbeats supposedly put the French to flight by making them believe a large army was approaching. The figure, dressed as an early-19th-century peasant and armed with a trabuc, stands on a stone pedestal bearing an inscription with the name of the town and the date 1808. Although it was declared a monumento nacional (Spain's historic national-monument designation) in 1914, it was not erected until 1952, in plaster, and was replaced by the current stone sculpture in 1954.

Photo: Jlmoncada (Public domain)

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