Estepona Mural - Dreams of Freedom

Sueños de Libertad by Paco Alarcón ©
Sueños de Libertad by Paco Alarcón

Sueños de Libertad (Dreams of Freedom)

Located on the corner where Calle Zaragoza meets Calle  Valencia, this mural is painted on Edificio Caravaca. It is a tribute to gender equality. morates 20 years of the Antonia Guerrero educative foundation which has  been commemorated in the 2013 mural entitled, Fundacion Antonia Guerrero.

Dña. Antonia Guerrero Díaz, (1848 to 1928) left an inheritance to set up a foundation to help provide further eduction for Estepona women from families of little means. There are no photographs nor paintings of Antonia known to exist.  

Sueños de Libertad was inaugurated in November 2016 and is a work by the local artist, Francisco Alarcon who has contributed other Murals and sculptures.

This romantic mural depicts two figures.  On one side is a woman who embodies Antonia Guerrero in her youth which looks inside and dreams to study and feel fulfilled in this area, and on the other side is a goldfinch which symbolic of her dreams of freedom.

The mural is eight metres high and painted using a wide range vivid colours which were intended to reflect the vitality of Guerrero herself. 

 

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