From Madrid, a little before reaching the town of Ambite, on our left among rows of elms and cypresses, we find what at first sight looks like a mausoleum. If we get closer, we can see a portico with a large central arch and two other lateral arches. It is an amazing construction, very strange and is in an almost ruinous state without deserving of it. It is a pastiche worth contemplating: the Monument to the Eyes.
With a face of surprise we look at the dozens of tiles that cover the portico and show eyes of all kinds, with references to the Cañí Spain and sentences related to the sense of sight. There, in the middle of the Madrid countryside. The monument has been the grazing ground of hooligans. Many of the ceramics are damaged, giving the whole thing a very disconcerting look. What’s that doing there, why did someone think of building it, why such an obsession with the eyes? To answer these questions one must know the special father and promoter of the work and the process of construction of this monument that, since then, has given it a reputation of being enchanted, esoteric and even cursed.
