When I saw the first photos of this installment, @velimir, I thought that the "terrifying face" was a metaphor to refer you to the apparently neglected state (dirt, mildew, or simple stains of time and weather?) of that "face" (facade) of such an originally attractive monument. If it is careless, it is lamentable (although in my country worse things happen: they destroy or steal certain adornments, sculptures, etc.). The real face of that kind of gargoyle is certainly horrendous, terrifying. Those faces of imaginary beings I think come from a certain Gothic influence, of course, fed by Greco-Latin mythology and medieval legends. I suppose it would be a way for artists (sculptors, architects) to exorcise their fears.
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