By Cathy Elelman • Published: 08 Jul 2020 • 19:33
SYMBOL: The sculpture represents the millions who applauded health and essential service workers during lockdown CREDIT: Juanma Moreno Twitter @JuanMa_Moreno
A PERMANENT tribute to health professionals and other essential service workers on the frontline of the battle against the Covid-19 pandemic now stands in the centre of Almeria.
📹 El presidente @JuanMa_Moreno inaugura en #Almería la primera de las esculturas de homenaje que #Andalucía dedica a los profesionales sanitarios y al resto de personas que luchan contra la pandemia #COVIDー19. ✅ pic.twitter.com/QwS1pAsrZR — Junta de Andalucía (@AndaluciaJunta) July 8, 2020
📹 El presidente @JuanMa_Moreno inaugura en #Almería la primera de las esculturas de homenaje que #Andalucía dedica a los profesionales sanitarios y al resto de personas que luchan contra la pandemia #COVIDー19. ✅ pic.twitter.com/QwS1pAsrZR
— Junta de Andalucía (@AndaluciaJunta) July 8, 2020
Junta de Andalucia president Juanma Moreno and city Mayor Ramón Fernandez-Pacheco unveiled the sculpture of clapping hands in the Oliveros district earlier on Wednesday. The regional government president described the work as the “everlasting symbol” of the millions of people who applauded health and key sector workers every night at eight during the lockdown. “With a simple, very Spanish, gesture, we recognised and supported the enormous effort of essential professionals”, Moreno commented. Based on a clay work by sculptor Jose Antonio Navarro Arteaga, the sculpture is made from from Macael marble. Artisans from the Macael region are creating identical works to honour frontline workers for each of the Andalucia provincial capitals.
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Cathy Elelman is the local writer for the Costa de Almeria edition of the Euro Weekly News.
Based in Mojacar for the last 21 years, Cathy is very much part of the local community and is always well and truly up on all the latest news and events going on in this region of Spain.
Her top goals are to do the best job she can informing the local English-speaking community, visitors to the area and the wider world about about the news in Almeria, to learn something new every day, and to embrace very new challenge this fast-changing world brings her way.
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