Visit to the "Manto de María" Monument

This monument is the Kinetic representation of the image of the Virgin of the Divine Shepherdess and of the child, it was made with 3772 aluminum tubes coated with black electrostatic paint , is a three-dimensional work that could be seen from different angles and that by the height of its construction and the changing movement of the winds has an undulating behavior that evokes the swaying of the original figure when its devotees take it in procession, it is located in Venezuela.

The structure has a height of 63 meters, and is composed of two towers of reinforced concrete and a metal bridge beam that form a portico that frames the main figure, a kinetic art sculpture of 47.14 meters, surrounded by a mirror of water that means the purity of the faith of the parishioners in the patroness of the Lara state.

The portico is composed of a pair of reinforced concrete towers that allow a climb and descent route with six vantage points.
It was built on a hill in the sector Veragacha or El Vidrio, east of Barquisimeto, called "The Hill of the Winds" located on the Circunvalación Avenue, in the city of Barquisimeto capital of Lara State, for its imposing height and elevation where it was built can be observed approximately 74 km away.

The main image has a width of 23.3 meters and a height of 47.14 meters, is composed of 522 tubular lines and approximately 13 thousand 318 meters of aluminum tubes of different lengths, with 25 centimeters of diameter by 1 millimeter of thickness and 28 thousand meters of guayas.