A giant portrait of Fidel Castro was ploughed into a field near the northern Italian city of Verona on Sunday.
Italian “land-artist” Dario Gambarin used a tractor to create the 130 metre-wide picture, entitled “Fidel”, in a field in Castagnaro.
The artwork comes as Pope Francis arrives in Cuba for his historic visit to the communist country.
The portrait, Gambarin said, is an homage to the former leader of the Cuban revolution who will met Francis on Sunday.
Gambarin said it took him between eight and nine hours to “draw” the portrait with a plough.
The tribute to Castro isn’t the only giant portrait of a famous figure Gambarin has produced.
Over the past few years the land artist has produced a giant image of U.S. President Barack Obama to coincide with his visit to Italy in July 2009, and Pope Francis immediately after his election in March 2013.
Gambarin deletes his works after a few days so that the field can be cultivated as usual, so the works are always executed between the harvest of the crop and the sowing of seed for the next one.
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