FLINTSHIRE is to mark its historical links with Liverpool during the city’s Capital of Culture year in spectacular style.
A replica of the Superlambanana, a sculpture that has become an iconic feature of Liverpool’s celebrations, is to be sited on Moel Famau for a month.
Pupils from the Venerable Edward Morgan Catholic Primary School, Shotton, and Penyffordd Primary School will be decorating the sculpture when it arrives at Wepre Park on July 14.
The artwork will arrive on Deeside after a stint at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod, where local children will start decorating the piece.
It is expected to arrive on Moel Famau on August 16 and will remain on the mountain top for about a month.
The ruins of the Jubilee Tower on the summit mark the boundary between Flintshire and Denbighshire, which is also celebrating its Liverpool links.
The Superlambanana is made out of fibreglass and is one of a number of replicas dotted around Liverpool which have been individually decorated by members of the community.
Flintshire and Denbighshire’s very own sculpture will go into the record books.
When it is secured on Moel Famau, it will be the highest of all the 119 Superlambananas on public display.
Organisers are hoping it will not meet the same fate as the Jubilee Tower, which was reduced to rubble during a storm more than a century ago.
The original Superlambanana is sited outside Liverpool John Moores University’s Avril Robarts Library.
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