Promenading Pillow

Peeking over the trees, the statue of Christopher Columbus stands grandly on top of the Monument a Colom at the foot of the Rambla at the center of the Plaça de la Porta de Pau (Square of the Gate of Peace) in Barcelona, Spain Taken from the wide harborfront promenade of the Passeig de Colom. The monument is placed at the site where Columbus arrived in 1493 after his discovery of America the year before. Columbus was presumably born in Genoa, Italy. He first moved to Portugal and later settled in Spain. Nevertheless in the 19th century Columbus was considered a Catalan – some historians still claimed he was born in Catalonia, hence the monument for the famous explorer in Barcelona. The 7m high statue shows a standing Columbus pointing to...