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: ''Nacimiento de un Hombre Nuevo''), popularly known as ''el huevo de Colón'' ("the Columbus' egg"), is a monument in

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, Spain. It is a work by

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, consisting of a

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representing

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partially enfolded by an egg-like shell. It was a gift from the city of

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to Seville on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Columbus in the Caribbean in 1492. The reported height of the sculptural work ranges from , while the individual figure is high, thus ranking as the largest statue in Spain, ahead of the ''

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''. Located at the , it was inaugurated by Elena de Borbón and

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in 1995.

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