The near completion of the Christopher Columbus Egg and the
planting of the palm trees along side the new duel carriageway is the subject
matter for our sixth weekly photographic series in the face-lift of San Antonio,
which took place ten-years-ago.
The Egg was built in the middle
of the new roundabout to the entrance of San Antonio - because it’s believed
in certain quarters that Christopher Columbus hails from Ibiza. The Egg comes
into the tale when Columbus went along to ask the King of Spain for sponsorship
to get a ship and put together a worthy crew to set sail for a voyage across the
Atlantic Ocean.
Apparently, the yarn goes that Christopher
Columbus was sat around a dining table with the King of Spain and his aids when
he was thrown a challenge across the table that they would grant him the funds
to back his adventure if he could stand an egg on its end without any form of
support.
The bright Columbus straight away very gently
taps the bottom of the egg on the table until he made a base for the egg to stand
upright - hence, Christopher got his dinero and also the credit for discovering
America?
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