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"FORTALEZA" means "strength"
the cannon-holding, emblematic statue was put on the facade of a 13th-century Benedictine monastery's facade (Alcobaca, Portugal, some 70km north of Lisbon) in the 18th century . The older-styled gargoyle was spared and looms at the feet of then fashionable baroque Fortaleza
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christophf's avatar
cannon are on many places in Santiago de Compostella  too