Jules Verne Memorial

Jules Verne Memorial

The Jules Verne Memorial is a work located in Vigo Port, Galicia, Spain. This monument was created by Spanish sculptor Jose Morales. He is a famous French writer whose adventure novels are usually set in exotic places. Although Jules Verne had only been to Vigo a few times, Vigo's bay was permanently locked in literary memory in "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," even though Captain Nemo's Nautilus was suspended during his oceanic journey. From this place overlooking the bay, Verne sat with a book in his hand, on the tentacles of a giant squid, the enemy of the crew of the Nautilus.