La Candelaria’s Rooftop Figures

Aliens? Visitors from a lost civilization? Victims of evil spells? The sculptured human figures perched on La Candelaria roofs and balconies were created in the mid-1990s by local artist Jorge Olave with financing from City Hall. Each was modeled after a local resident, generally ordinary people such as shoeshine men, carpenters and one of the [...]