La ablanera

The hazelnut-seller (avellanera in Castilian, ablanera in Asturian) is a statue in a small square in Infiesto, which regards itself as the capital of the hazlenut. 
George Borrow´s The Bible in Spain, published in 1843, records his travels around Spain trying to sell copies of the Bible. He makes no mention of Infiesto, but records his visit to Villaviciosa, which in my memory he describes as a "small, dirty town" and very important to the production of hazelnuts. Villaviciosa, the home of two families of aristocrats and the site of a number of ducal houses, is unlikely to have justified that description and as far as I know has had no great interest in hazelnuts - so quite possibly Borrow got his notes between these two neighbouring Asturian towns confused. 
Anyway, Infiesto is proud of its hazelnut-producing prowess and the contemporary ablanera statue is evidence of that. The extra is an old garden gate with dangling weeds, very close to the statue.