Legends Of Girona Pt 3- The witch of the Cathedral and The Girl of Constitution Square

Today, we are going to tell you two stories: the first about  The Witch of the Cathedral, and the second  about The Girl of Constitution Square.


The Witch of The Cathedral


Once upon a time, many many years ago, there used to live in Girona, a very bitter and mean woman, who was known as a witch. She devoted herself to the practice of black magic and the hate towards all the other people but herself. She used to fly around on her broom cursing at people and throwing rocks at them!

But one day, she was flying around the cathedral doing her favorite thing: cursing and hurting people with her rocks, when a very deep and loud voice was heard by everybody. The voice said “Rocks you throw, rock you will remain!”. At this  moment, the witch was turned into  stone ! She was placed as a gargoyle (the only human-shaped gargoyle on the cathedral’s walls) on the Carlomagno’s Tower.

She was put faced down, so she would never see the sky again, and used as a gargoyle so water would always pass through her mouth in order to clean it, since she was such a dirty mouthed witch!

 

The Girl of Constitution Square

This one is not exactly a legend, but a very interesting fact.

At the Constitution Square (Plaza de la Constituición) there’s a statue of a lovely little girl sitting there all by herself watching every step of the day-to-day life.

Her name is María del Mar Cabeza Catalán, and  the reason of the tribute is that she was the only girl born in Girona on December, 6th  of 1978, the day when the first democratic constitution was enacted, just after the end of Franco’s dictatorship.

The original Project was to make the statue of María del Mar Cabeza Catalán, when she was 4 years old, based on a model made by the sculptor from Madrid Francisco Lópes,but it turned out that so many years passed since the idea of the Project , that the model wasn’t good anymore and the artist concluded his work based on a photo, when María was already 12 years old.

This art piece attracts tourists every day, everybody wants to take a photo of/with the girl.