Mendigo con perros, Oviedo

The urban sculpture known as Beggar with Dogs, located in Pedro Miñor Square, in the city of Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain, is one of more than a hundred that adorn the streets of the aforementioned Spanish city.

The urban landscape of this city is adorned by sculptural works, generally commemorative monuments dedicated to important people at first, and more purely artistic since the late twentieth century.

The sculpture, made of iron, is the work of Rafael Rodriguez Urrusti, and is dated 1995. It is on a large stone pedestal, represents an old beggar dressed in an old and tattered American jacket and pants with knee pads, despite which wears a tie and a wrinkled hat, which is accompanied by two dogs Rufo and his companion, which were very popular dogs in the city of Oviedo in the eighties of the nineteenth century.