The hidden entrance

It is a bas-relief mural, but there is something particular about it.

Behind that work of art, which is 8 meters wide and almost 9 meters high, lies a tunnel that takes us back to the old-time port city of Rosario. The passage connected Santa Fe’s Western Railway station, located at Chacabuco and 9 de Julio streets, with the docks in the port area. The first Argentinian wheat shipping with destination to Europe set off from this site in 1878. 
As time went by, the area served different purposes until a contest was held to embellish it, in 1941. Lucio Fontana and Osvaldo Palacios, his colleague, won by presenting a relief sculpture project called “The Sower”, which was put in place, covering the tunnel’s entrance.