Monument to Effort
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The Monument to Effort or Monumento al Esfuerzo is a large sculpture realized by colombian artist Rodrigo Arenas Betancur in the department of Quindío (Colombia) as a memorial for the foundation of the city and the antioquian colonisation that made it possible.
This monument is inspired by the painting "Horizontes" of antioquian artist Francisco Antonio Cano, that depicts a couple of peasants who point to unknown lands in the horizon, where they hope to colonise. The monument represent the strong will of the first habitants of the area who arrived to this selvatic location to start a settlement with their families, looking for news options of survival and scaping away of the civil wars that affected the northern areas of the country during the XIX century.
It is a 28 m high bronze sculpture and was dedicated in 1978. Its current location is in the main square of Armenia.
