This peculiar statue stands in the port of Alghero, Sarda.
An illuminated pink bicycle? Why is that?
Let's zoom in on the plaque to get the hint...
Of course. Giro, the Italian bicycle race was here last year. And it was its 100th edition.
Let's zoom out some more to see the base of the statue...
It is a bunker.
Isn't it great to give an aura of the positive achievement to a remnant of war?
Beautiful ride. Enjoy your vaccazzione ;)
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Grazie mille 😁
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I like that idea; and the pink bike on top of the bunker...
Reminds me a bit of something we have here in our town: There's a peace monument called "Memory's Vault" in the middle of a former military installation, blended in with the bunkers and cannon batteries. 200 hectares of military reservation, and suddenly you come to these giant "grave stones" engraved with peace poetry.
It's very powerful, the contrast.
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You really have a great monument and a powerful message there. I like this approach too. To turn around a symbol, to give it a new, positive karma.
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@ervin-lemark,
I'm going to beg to differ with the other commenters. I'm ex-military and this strikes me as being incredibly disrespectful.
Men probably fought and died in that bunker. They had names and families and hopes and ambitions. They were real people. It's a piece of history pregnant with poignancy. It has a meaning which ought to be respected ... not co-opted.
Today's culture is narcissistically self-centric, trying to super-impose its priorities and values upon everyone and everything else. Having accomplished little or nothing of difficulty, they nevertheless believe they have some grand insight upon wisdom.
"I'm gender-fluid and have green hair ... you better agree with 'my truths' or I'll cry."
Go and cry.
Past generations built what we now take for granted. And often that required fighting and dying. We weren't there and so don't know what it was like. Memorials like this serve as stimuli for contemplation about the past and what we may learn from it. It is meant to preserve the past as it was, not as you would have liked it.
This is the kind of stupidity that makes people, myself included, dislike "activists."
A pink bicycle on a pillbox ... "Oh ... isn't that deep."
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