The astronaut at the cathedral of Salamanca

[Argos]

Have you ever heard of the astronaut carved out on the ornaments of the Salamanca Cathedral [Spain]? Well, days ago, some people sent me a PowerPoint presentation about it. At first I thought it was a hoax, or some kind of Photoshop doctoring. But I´ve found out that the figure of the astronaut was indeed inserted in a recent [1992] restoration, by Jerónimo Garcia, who´s choosen the astronaut as the symbol of the 20th century. Very cool.

Here´s a link to a detail (http://www.portaldoastronomo.org/cronica.php?id=67), on a Portuguese site.

[NEOWatcher]

Have you ever heard of the astronaut carved out on the ornaments of the Salamanca Cathedral [Spain]?

http://www.bautforum.com/questions-answers/74749-astronauts-stone-salamanca-cathedral.html

http://www.bautforum.com/against-mainstream/17251-so-what-could.html

And 22 other hits from a google search here for Salemanca.

[Argos]

Well, thanks. I apologize for not using the Search feature. You may close the thread.

[antoniseb]

Thread closed as per request by Argos.