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La Mamarracha

Higuera la Real, Sierra Suroeste, Badajoz

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La Mamarracha

Monument · Higuera la Real, Sierra Suroeste, Badajoz

A Roman sculpture from the 1st-2nd centuries carved from a single block of white marble, 1.37 meters tall, depicting a griffin (half bird, half lioness) beside a human figure it protects. It stands facing the chapel of Nuestra Señora de Loreto, on a granite pedestal dated 1909.

Photo: Antoniobarragancobos (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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