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Parque Doramas
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Atis Tirma

Monumento en recuerdo de una gesta en la conquista de Gran Canaria
Monument in memory of an act in the conquest of Gran Canaria

Manuel Bethencourt
1981

Description

Fountain with in the center a high 'mountain' with four bronze figures. On 29 April 1483 Guayarmina Semidán, considered to be queen of Gran Canaria, surrendered at Ansite Fortress. On the same day Chief Bentejuí and his shaman-advisor the Faycán of Telde committed suicide by jumping off a cliff while shouting Atis Tirma ('for my land'). With their dead the armed and organized resistance against the Spanish conquest ended.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Atis Tirma

Inscription(s)

cuando el valeroso
canario tasarte
observo que la mayor
parte de los suyos
seguia el dictamen de
uncobarde . . . . . .
arrebatado de dolor
y de frenesi corrio
al borde del celebre
risco tirma . . . . . .
y clamando ¡atis tirma!
se precipito almar

Viera y Clavijo

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Atis Tirma

Artist

Manuel Bethencourt Santana (La Habana 1931 - Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2012), Spanish-Canarian sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Catálogo de bienes histórico-artístico del Ayuntamiento de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (PDF on-line).
Esculturas en Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2 P.
La Estrella que nos guia, Esculturas de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (1 P.).
Juan Álvarez Lasso, Bustos, esculturas y monumentos en la ciudad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Primera parte (2011) (on-line), p. 513-517.

Location (N 28°7'18" - W 15°25'37") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca159; Photograph: 7 January 2015
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