STATUE : GARONA

It embodies the River Garonne (‘Garona’ in Occitan) in the guise of an impetuous woman cutting her way through the rock.
This work symbolises both the strength and the fluidity of the river.
The Garonne rises in the Spanish Pyrenees and flows for 500km before joining the Dordogne in the Gironde estuary and ending its course in the Atlantic Ocean.
Legend has it that it owes its name to Gar, an ancient local deity who also gave his name to the Pic du Gar.

Albert Vall Martínez is a Catalan painter and sculptor who specialises in sculpting the human body. In 2009, he won the 1st Pere Jou sculpture prize at the Palais Miramar, a former 19th-century royal palace in northern Spain.