The emigrant’s mother
The emigrant's mother, also known as La lloca'l Rinconín or la muyerona, is a sculpture by Ramón Muriedas Mazorra located in Somió, on the coast of Gijón, Spain, erected as a homage to Asturian emigration around the world.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Álvarez López, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Work of art
- Artwork type: statue
- Also known as: “‘La Lloca’”, “La madre del emigrante”, “La Madre del Emigrante”, and “Monument to the Mother of Migrants”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include El Molinón and Solidaridad.
El Molinón
Stadium
Photo: HesselinK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Estadio El Molinón, officially Estadio Municipal El Molinón-Enrique Castro "Quini", is an association football stadium in Gijón, Asturias, Spain. The stadium is the home ground of Real Sporting de Gijón. El Molinón is situated 1¼ km south of The emigrant’s mother.
Solidaridad
Work of art
Photo: Banderas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Solidaridad is a work of art, which is situated 280 metres east of The emigrant’s mother.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Arena and Cimavilla.
Cimavilla
Suburb
Photo: FDV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cimavilla is a neighbourhood of the municipality of Gijón, in Asturias, Spain. Its population was 2,811 in 2012. Cimavilla is the oldest part of the city, in it there are ruins of the old Roman settlement.
The emigrant’s mother
- Categories: sculpture and tourism
- Location: Gijón, Asturias, Green Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
43.54835° or 43° 32′ 54″ northLongitude
-5.64107° or 5° 38′ 28″ westElevation
1 metre (3 feet)Open location code
8CMPG9X5+8HOpenStreetMap ID
node 988369614OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=artworkOpenStreetMap attribute
artwork_type=statueGeoNames ID
10281491Wikidata ID
Q59485002
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Swedish—“The emigrant’s mother” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “La lloca’l Rinconín”
- Asturian: “La madre del emigrante”
- Asturian: “La madre l’emigrante”
- Asturian: “La muyerona”
- Cebuano: “Monument to the Mother of Migrants”
- Spanish: “La madre del emigrante”
- Swedish: “Monument to the Mother of Migrants”
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