| Plaza de las Esculturas (also known as Plaza Botero) is essentially an outdoor museum with sculptures by one of Medellín’s most famous exports and arguably one of South America’s most celebrated artists, Fernando Botero.
His sculptures are instantly recognisable featuring inflated or oversized humans and animals.
Plaza de las Esculturas contains 23 sculptures which is the world’s largest collection of Botero’s work. Botero donated the sculptures on condition that they were placed outside so that people could easily see and touch them.
Indeed, the Roman soldier sculpture is said to bring love to whoever touches it. Whille in the Colombian coastal city of Cartagena, Plaza Santo Domingo contains the Botero sculpture ‘reclining nude’ whom hundreds of thousands of tourists have lovingly touched and subsequently turned her bronze nipples shiny.
Other Botero sculptures can be found nearby at Parque Berrio and Parque San Antonio while Museo de Antioquia hosts a large collection of his paintings. |
