Monumento a Perot de Granyana, Castellon de La Plana

In the middle part of the Avenida de la Mare de Deu del Lledó, leading to the basilica of the same name, there is a monument to the farmer Perot de Granyana, from which the history of the patroness of the city began.

According to legend, a peasant plowed his field near the city. Suddenly, two oxen pulling a plow stopped at a hawthorn bush and didn't want to go any further. Walking around the oxen, Peroto found a small wooden figure of the Madonna under a bush, which he took home that evening. The next morning, the statue was not in the house, he considered the whole story an obsession, and went to the field. To his great surprise, Perot found the statue again in the same place as the day before. He took her home again, and the next day the miraculous disappearance and discovery were repeated.

The next day, the farmer went to the city, where he reported an amazing find, but at first they thought he was crazy. However, Peroto persuaded people to come to him in the field, where they witnessed an even more miraculous phenomenon: next to a hawthorn bush, they saw the image of a Virgin surrounded by angels. Then it was decided to build a chapel on this site, and the figure, which received the name of the Virgin del Ledo (in Valencian, the Virgin of hawthorn), became the patroness of the city.

In 1958, a boulevard was laid to the church, and a monument to the farmer was erected on it, made by the famous sculptor Juan Bautista Adsuara.