The sculptor who claimed bullet impacts completed his work

The Mirador de la Memoria features four life-sized sculptures of naked figures - three men and one woman. They stand on a cliff edge in the Jerte Valley, looking toward the Sierra de Tormantos.

The sculptures were purchased by the Asociación Comarcal de Jóvenes del valle del Jerte from sculptor Francisco Cedenilla Carrasco. The association searched for a location for the work, sending letters to eleven different towns, but received only two responses. Eventually, the sculptures were installed at a viewpoint called Mirador del Silencio in the municipality of El Torno.

Only a few days after the inauguration on January 24, 2009, the monument was shot. The sculptor, Francisco Cedenilla Carrasco, declared that the bullet impacts seen on the sculptures completed his work, and therefore he did not need to repair them.

Today, the site remains a place of active remembrance for the victims and repressed people of the civil war and Francoism. The monument also appeared in the 2018 documentary El silencio de otros, which won a Goya Award for best documentary.

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