Monument to Gomez de la Serna Ramon

The monument to Gomez de la Serna Ramón, erected in honor of the famous Spanish writer, is the central decoration of the Vistillas Garden.

Gomez became famous as a representative of the avant-garde with a bias towards surrealism. He worked in all genres, except poems. The monument to the writer was created by sculptor Enrique Pérez Commandador and opened in 1972.

It is a bronze sculpture located on a marble pedestal in the center of a small fountain. The sculpture is created in the form of a pile of books and all sorts of things on which a woman stands, and on the front side, as if in a bowl placed on the edge, there is an image of the writer’s face. This monument symbolizes Borges’ words about Don Ramon that he wrote “a book of everything” all his life.