Anyone know what these are?

[NikkiTate]

There are several of them just as you are starting to leave Sarria... Thanks!

 

[Julia Mumford]

No idea!

 

[Pelegrin]

Art decó ? I have no idea. Nothing to do with Galician tradition.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

Gould it be a part off a hollow tree .??

 

[CaminoDebrita]

They look like nomadic rain shelters, or perhaps I should mention that they look like giant, vertical anatomy (I'll let you fill in that 'gap')

 

[TaijiPilgrim]

There are several of them just as you are starting to leave Sarria... Thanks!

When I saw them in 2011, I thought they were an art installation. I think there was a sign.

 

[williamlittig]

BEAUTIFUL !

 

[MichelleElynHogan]

They look like hollow tree trunks.

 

[C clearly]

I assumed they were interesting tree trunks.

 

[MisterH]

What are they made of? If wood then tree trunks, if non-organic then art project may be. I didn't get that far.

 

[hel&scott]

These are the seed pods left over from invaders of the body snatchers.

 

[Jo King]

There are several of them just as you are starting to leave Sarria... Thanks!

My guess is : Really old, ultra vintage, chestnut tree trunks hollowed out either naturally with age or as shelters for pilgrims from the strong winds/rain. Well, I've seen old tree trunks similar to these before and used as temporary shelters.

 

[C clearly]

These are the seed pods left over from invaders of the body snatchers.

We need a link to the "This is not a serious post" thread!

 

[marilyn van graan]

There are several of them just as you are starting to leave Sarria... Thanks!

They look like hollowed out tree trunks???? interesting

 

[Hiawatha]

I walked past them in June of this year , I also assumed they were part of an art installation .
The unfortunate reality is that there is one with an opening large enough to admit a human , this had been used as a toilet time and time again

 

[LesR]

There are several of them just as you are starting to leave Sarria... Thanks!

I saw them and put them down to "street art" then kept walking...

 

[Jan_D]

Apparently they are by a local sculptor names Jose Diaz Fuentes (born in Sarria 1940, died in Paris in 2010). These two pieces were originally part of a larger installation commissioned for an interior courtyard in Monterosso Italy. (I take no credit for the attached pics!)

 

[aliciaandrews]

There are several of them just as you are starting to leave Sarria... Thanks!

i saw these in 2018. to me they look like a sarcophagus...a vertical burial place...i never found out for sure