Fingers Monument
Rambla General Jose Artigas, Punta del Este
Description:
The Fingers Monument is a sculpture by Uruguayan Mario Irarrazabal, installed on the beach of Punta del Este in 1982. It is one of the most famous symbols of Uruguay.
The monument is unofficially called Los Dedos, which means “Fingers”, but according to the idea of this sculpture was to become a monument to the Drowning Man. Five fingers of the left hand literally burst out from under the sand layer of the beach of Brava. Huge fingers, whose height exceeds three meters, should remind of the dead on the coast of Punta del Este.
The sculpture was installed in 1982 during the festival of modern urban sculpture. Today "Fingers" have become perhaps the most famous monument in the city, to which flows of tourists.