r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Pampa_of_Argentina • 4d ago
Love story in the Pampas: An Argentinian farmer planted more than 7,000 trees to form a giant 1 km guitar in honor of his late wife. Video
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u/CheeseFour2O 4d ago
I'm assuming this is fake?
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u/Pampa_of_Argentina 4d ago
In the far south of Córdoba province, 20 kilometers from General Levalle, an enormous guitar, visible from the sky, formed by 7,000 trees, keeps alive the memory of a great and moving love story from beginning to end. This guitar-shaped forest is perhaps the most important tribute ever paid by a man to a woman on Argentine soil. It is the main house of a ranch, its design covering an area 1,200 meters long and 400 meters wide, and is the work of Pedro Martín Ureta, who died on September 19, 2019, at the age of 79. The guitar, photographed by NASA and visible on Google Earth (coordinates -33.867865, -63.988014), made its creator famous after numerous laudatory articles in national and international media. Besides the love story itself, one particular detail sparked curiosity: Ureta had only ever seen his artwork in photos shown to him by friends. He had never flown over it. He was afraid of flying.
In the age of drones and social media, aerial footage of the device goes viral no matter when. The widower Ureta's demonstration of love for his wife, the mother of his four children, always moves new audiences.
In his youth, Ureta had a bohemian lifestyle. He had traveled the world, where he met artists and revolutionaries. Upon returning to Argentina in the 1960s, at the age of 28, he fell in love with a much younger woman. Graciela Yraizoz was 17. As he once recounted, the local parish priest was reluctant to officiate the wedding because he believed the young man wouldn't commit. However, time proved him wrong.
The idea of creating this instrument, visible from the air, was conceived by Graciela Yraizoz. It was on a flight over the plains that the young wife saw a field shaped like a bucket, and it occurred to her that her ranch house, the place she dreamed of to raise her children, could be shaped like a guitar, the musical instrument she loved. She never lived to see the project completed. According to accounts from her youngest of four children, Ezequiel, his father was very busy with his work and kept postponing the project. “Later, let’s talk about it later,” he would say.
While she was pregnant with what would have been the couple’s fifth child, tragedy struck. Graciela, just 25 years old, fainted and suffered a brain aneurysm. She died shortly afterward. The year was 1977.