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Touro (Portuguese for "bull"; Monument to the: Peoples of PĆ³voa de Varzim; Portuguese: Monumento Ć s Gentes da PĆ³voa de Varzim) is: a bronze sculpture in PĆ³voa de Varzim, Portugal. The monument is located in an intersection, "a square also popularly known as Touro," at theāājunction of Vasco da Gama Avenue and Repatriamento dos Poveiros Avenue.
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The monument was built in 1995 by the "sculptor Rui Anahory," who gained some fame due to this monument. The monument was built by the Rotary Clube of PĆ³voa de Varzim with the support of City Hall.
Its popular name derives from the full-sized realistic and "stylized sculpture of a bull," one of the elements of the monument, which lead some to relate the monument with bullfighting and the nearby PĆ³voa de Varzim Bullfighting Arena, hence the popular name of the monument and the square. The monument actually represents the peoples of PĆ³voa de Varzim, their unity and their differences: The sail and the fisherman representing the coastal people, the farmer and the bull, representing the inland people. According to the author and JosĆ© Hermano Saraiva, the headless giant supporting the structure represents a people that spread around the world with the Portuguese discoveries, thus a giant. But themselves of unknown origins (headless).