Today, I want you all to know about one of my favourite statues: the Bicha of Balazote.
This weird limestone sphynx-type beast was made in the 6th century BC in what's now the province of Albacete, Spain.
In the 1870s, some neighbors of the town of Balazote dug this statue up and started calling it "la Bicha" (which could be translated to "the beast", "the thing" or "the bug", with a feminine pronoun). After an uncertain amount of years they donated it to a museum, and it now remains one of the best examples of Iberian art of the time.
Look at her face. Isn't she great?















