Oviedo statues

Main is Woody Allen, a bit of a local hero here because he´s used Oviedo as a place to shoot a film and sometimes comes back. Obviously he´s not uncontroversial, but his statue has, as you see, not yet ended up in a river. There are some more statues in extras. (1) is called La Gitana - the  Gypsy. (2) is called La Regenta, because she´s the main character of the novel La Regenta, by Leopoldo Alas, very much a Spanish Madame Bovary and vilified by Oviedo in its day because a number of local  dignitaries recognised themselves. (3) is La Torera, who was a real person, and not a bullfighter but a street photographer. (4) is my favourite, but he´s un-named, he´s just a goblin who sits on the south wall of the cathedral. 

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