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Museum of Anclas Philippe Cousteau

Castrillón, Avilés, Asturias

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Museum of Anclas Philippe Cousteau

Monument · Castrillón, Avilés, Asturias

The open-air Philippe Cousteau Anchor Museum is located on the La Peñona peninsula, at one end of Salinas beach, near the Arnao tunnel, in the Asturian concejo of Castrillón. Promoted by the brotherhood of the good table of the sea, it was inaugurated on 30 September 1993. Beside each anchor stands a steel sculpture called Vela, the work of Lucio Marcos Pernia, with marine and nautical motifs. The ensemble also includes a bust of Philippe Cousteau, the work of Vicente Menéndez-Santarúa Prendes, a ceramic mural by Ramón Rodríguez and the Municipal School of Ceramics of Avilés, and a compass rose. It is dedicated to the memory of Philippe Cousteau, son of Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a diver who disappeared in 1979.

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