El Parotet (sculpture)
El Parotet is a sculpture that instantly marks this corner of Valencia with a playful, soaring silhouette. Designed by Valencian architect Miquel Navarro and erected in 2003, it stands 46 meters tall and rises near the city’s imaginative mix of science and culture, close to the Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències and the Torre de França. The work is a gift to the city from the Fundació Caixa d'Estalvis i Mont de Pietat de València, commemorating the creation of the Obra Social, so it carries a sense of civic celebration as much as public art. Its form evokes a dragonfly, or parotet in Valencian, giving a light, kinetic presence to a roundabout known as Europa. …
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