Monumento a la Tolerancia
Monumento a la Tolerancia stands at Seville’s Salt Wharf beside the Guadalquivir River, near Triana Bridge and Paseo de Colón. Eduardo Chillida shaped the large sculpture in an abstract language of monumental form, solid material and open space.
Seville inaugurated the work in 1992 during the city’s Universal Exposition, after a project first proposed in 1980 had regained momentum. The Friends of Sefarad Foundation financed it to commemorate the 1492 Edict of Granada and remember five Jewish family members executed during the expulsions. Its subject reaches beyond one event, linking Seville’s Jewish history with memory, coexistence and the consequences of intolerance.
The unveiling on 1 April 1992 brought together Chillida, Israeli president Jaim Herzog, Aura Herzog and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Elie Wiesel. Along the river, the sculpture gives that difficult history a visible place within Seville’s artistic landscape.
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