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More than two years after being wrecked by a car, the old boots are resting again on their perch in a South Gables traffic circle.

Titled Las Botas Viejas, the sculpture of a well-worn pair of boots recently underwent a six-month restoration and has been carefully reinstalled at Cartagena Plaza (also known as Cocoplum Circle), where LeJeune Road, Sunset Drive, Old Cutler Road and Cocoplum Road intersect.

The  $54,840 cost was covered by insurance proceeds from driver who hit the sculpture, according to Maria Rosa Higgins Fallon, Coral Gables public affairs manager.

Donated to the city in 1979 by Cartagena, Colombia — Coral Gables’ first Sister City — the 95-inch-long, 53-inch-wide sculpture was struck on Jan. 29, 2010, by an automobile that lost control while heading eastbound on Sunset Drive.