Penell (Weathervane) Home » Sculptural » Penell (Weathervane) About the artwork About the author Location Audio - Guide Artwork: Penell / Veleta Artist: Josep Murcia Vidal Location: Giravent Park Date: 1994-1995 A sculpture made of metal. The secret of this urban work is the sensitive, almost imperceptible windmill with three hemispheres (like anemometers) that crowns the piece. An element that lives with its almost perpetual movement of revolutions in the slightest breeze. Thus, when we look at the arrow pointing in the direction of the sirocco wind and see the windlass in motion, we perceive that there is a breeze blowing in this direction. Only in the unlikely event that the windmill stops, the vane would remain dead, pointing in the direction of the last wind. But when it is reborn in the lightest breeze, it revives and once again points out the iron milestones with the names of the nine main winds that affect the Valencian territory: mistral, ponente, gregal, levante, mediodía, tramontana, gregal, siroco and lebeche. Artist: Josep Murcia Vidal After graduating in architecture in 1974, he worked as the municipal architect in the Town Council of Aldaia from October 1983 until January 2019. During this period he was the director of the team that drafted the General Urban Development Plan (PGOU). Member of the drafting team of the PGOU in Alaquàs and architect of several buildings in Aldaia, including the Indoor Sports Pavilion, the Canxa Calle de la Galotxa, the Town Hall (1988), the Casa de la Música, the New Cemetery, the Residential Complex for the Elderly and Senior Citizens Centre, the Green Belt and Comunero Irrigation Channel gardens, the Plaza de Europa Garden, the Perdiguero Garden in the Barrio de Cristo (1992), and the Water Tower Garden. On the other hand, José Murcia has also rehabilitated the House of Tio Carmelo and was the Project Director for the projects of the TAMA buildings, the Matilde Salvador Centre, the Casa de la Llotgeta-Fan Museum in Aldaia or the Covered Pavilion of the Barrio de Cristo. Location Audio - Guide Tu navegador no soporta audio