There are hundreds of elephant statues and monuments in the world. In India, Indochina, Africa, but for a long time these little creatures have erected monuments and statues in the most inappropriate places for this. With the complicity of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the elephant has had an imposing monument in the heart of Christianity since 1667. Piazza della Minerva, Rome.
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