Geoglyph "Sacred" at Spiš Castle / Geoglyf pod Spišským hradom - Spišské podhradie (East Slovakia)
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From a far visible amazing geoglyph of Celtic horse named "Sacred", work of Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers, is located on slope of Spiš Castle (Spišský hrad) hill in Spiš region of East Slovakia.
Waymark Code: WMJC71
Location: Prešovský kraj, Slovakia
Date Posted: 10/28/2013
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From a far visible amazing geoglyph of Celtic horse named "Sacred", work of Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers, is located on slope of Spiš Castle (Spišský hrad) hill in Spiš region of East Slovakia.
Andrew Rogers created this amazing travertine marble-stone geoglyph of a Celtic horse on northern slope of Spiš Castle hill (Spišské Podhradie, East Slovakia) on May 2008. The geoglyph, 100 meters wide and 70 meters high, was created on the base of a Celtic coin found under Spiš castle. The construction took 2 weeks of work of 140 workers and consumed 3000 tons of travertine (cost 330 000 €). Roger´s monumental geoglyphs from his project "Rhythms of Life" have been constructed already in nine countries; Israel, Chile, Bolivia, Sri Lanka, Australia, Iceland, China, India and Turkey.
Pod Spišským hradom sa nachádza geoglyf predstavujúci štylizovaného keltského jazdca z mince, ktorá sa našla na Spišskom hrade. Geoglyf je obraz, piktogram v krajine, zobrazujúci figúru alebo ornament. Je to tvar velkých rozmerov. Autorom tohto geoglyfu je austrálsky umelec a sochár Andrew Roger, ktorý realizuje geoglyfy modernej doby po celom svete. Geoglyf pod Spišským hradom bol jeho prvým dielom v Európe. Umelec ho realizoval v rámci cyklu Rytmus života pod názvom "Sacred". 100 m široký a 70 m vysoký obraz bol poskladaný z volne uložených travertínových balvanov na severnom svahu travertínovej kopy Spišský hrad. Na stavbu sa použilo 3000 t travertínu, výstavba trvala dva týždne a pracovalo na nej približne 140 robotníkov. Celková hodnota travertínu použitého na výstavbu geoglyfu dosiahla sumu 330 000 €.