Navalcarnero
Comunidad de Madrid
Parque historico de San Sebastian
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Monumento Isabel la Católica
Queen Isabella I Monument
Madrigal de las Altas Torres 1451 - Medina del Campo 1504
Queen of Castile and León.
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Salvador Amaya
2005
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Description
Bronze statue on a granite pedestal. On the corners of this pedestal are four bronze statues of important men during Isabella's reign (front right, counterclockwise; names as they appear at the foot of the statues):
- El Gran Capitan. Don Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Prince of Maratra (1453-1515), general and statesman. He was called El Gran Capitán by contemporaries and "the Father of Trench Warfare" by historians.
- Cristobal Colon, in 1492 Ferdinand and Isabella paid his voyage of discovery to America.
- Cardenal Cisneros. Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros OFM (1436-1517), cardinal and statesman, twice regent of Spain, Grand Inquisitor, missionary of the Moors, promoted the Crusades in North Africa, and founded the Complutense University.
- Boabdil. Abu 'abd Allah Muhammad XII) (1460?-1527), the last Moorish king of Granada. He surrendered the town to Ferdinand and Isabella in 1492.
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1.El Gran Capitan |
2.Cristobal Colon |
3.Cardenal Cisneros |
4.Boabdil |
Inscription(s)
Front of pedestal:
a isabel la católica
(1.451-1.504)
bajo cujo glorioso reinado se llevó
a cabo la unidad de españa y el
descubrimiento de américa.
el pueblo de navalcarnero en el
v centenario de su muerte.
bottom right: año del 2005
Right side, the inscriptions to statues 1 and 2:
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba,
"El Gran Capitán"
al enemigo que huye hacedle la puente la plata..."
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Cristobal Colón "Ví la luz del sol en la sonrisa indígena de nueva españa"
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Left side, the inscriptions to statues 3 and 4:
Cardenal Cisneros "un solo fraile ha hecho en españa, lo que en francia, hubieron de hacer muchos reyes..." francisco
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Boabdil "amó a granada eternamente no supo vivir sin ella"
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Annotation
The statue is in the Parque histórico de San Sebastián, which was inaugurated 29 April 2005, including the statues, .
Sculptor
- Salvador Amaya (Madrid 1970), Spanish sculptor (Website).
Sources & Information
Tags
Locatie (N 40°17'14" - W 4°1'11") (Satellite view: Google Maps)
Item Code: esma009;
Photograph: 10 May 2006
/ Updated: 3 March 2011
© Website and photos: René & Peter van der Krogt
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