Description
Bronze medaillon showing Columbus studying a globe (with a modern map of the Americas!). In a background a caravel.
Annotation
The medaillon was made on the initiative of Natalio Trebino and was unveiled 12 October 1923.
Soma presented a copy of the medaillon Trebino, who took it in 1930 to Argentine where it still is (see Córdoba, Argentina).
Sculptor
Sources & Information
- CICAP Gruppo Piemonte, Guida dei luoghi e ogetti misteriosi in Piemonte: Il dito di Cristoforo Colombo [no longer on-line] a cura di M. Lup. (tratto da La Stampa del 3 gennaio 2001), Fotografia di Claudio Dati. [Thanks to Norbert Fiks, who gave me the reference].
- Information by Natalio Trebino III.
- Club Internazionale dei Diritti del Turista, Cristoforo Colombo a Torino, autore Claudio Pasqua
Tags
Locatie (N 45°4'13" - E 7°41'7") (Satellite view: Google Maps)
Item Code: itpi006;
Added: 16 December 2006
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