The Egg is the best known landmark in San Antonio, located in the centre of the main roundabout at the entrance to the town.

The Egg is a statue erected in the early 1990s to commemorate the local claim of having been the birth place of Christopher Columbus (there is a similar claim that Hannibal was born in the region). The statue is in the shape of an egg, containing at its centre a model of his ship; the Santa Maria.

The choice of an egg comes from a story about Columbus, who when seeking funding for his Western route to the Indies and being told it was impossible allegedly asked if standing an egg upright was impossible and when told that it was he cracked the base of the egg, thus making it possible for it to stand upright and was granted funding.