La Pasionaria, Statue Of Dolores Ibarruri, Clyde Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 August 2004. Monument. 1 related planning application.
La Pasionaria, Statue Of Dolores Ibarruri, Clyde Street, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- pitched-plaster-dawn
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Constituency
- Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 3 August 2004
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NS 588 648
- Coordinates
- 55.85602, -4.25692
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
La Pasionaria is a statue of Dolores Ibarruri located on Clyde Street in Glasgow, created by Arthur Dooley between 1974 and 1979. The statue features a tall, narrow steel pedestal and plinth that support a standing fiberglass figure of Ibarruri, depicted with her arms stretched skyward and wearing flowing drapery to the north.
On the south elevation, the steel pedestal includes a plaque that reads: "THE CITY OF GLASGOW AND THE BRITISH LABOUR MOVEMENT pay tribute to the courage of those men and women who went to Spain to fight Fascism 1936-1939. 2,100 VOLUNTEERS WENT FROM BRITAIN; 534 WERE KILLED, 65 OF WHOM CAME FROM GLASGOW." The steel plinth also features a plaque with the quote: "BETTER TO DIE ON YOUR FEET THAN LIVE FOR EVER ON YOUR KNEES - Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria)."
Local climate
La Pasionaria, Statue Of Dolores Ibarruri, Clyde Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,290 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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