LA CASTAÑERA

Fun piece of street art painted on a public stand, depicting a castañera (a traditional roasted chestnut seller).

During the autumn and winter months, street stalls open across Spain where these vendors roast chestnuts over charcoal stoves and sell them hot in paper cones.

The main mural captures this popular figure using traditional elements. She is wearing her characteristic checkered headscarf and matching apron, she uses a traditional metal chestnut charcoal roaster, and she holds a metal turning tool in one hand while proudly holding a paper cone filled with roasted chestnuts, in the other. On the forefront a sack filled with raw chestnuts awaits.

On the other two sides of the stand just a stack of chestnuts, and a couple of corn cobs, complete the menu .

The artist uses a fun cartoon figure in colourful attire to contrast with the black "industrial charcoal background' behind, probably to soften up a bit the hard working conditions