The Monument to the Fallen for Spain (Spanish: Monumento a los Caídos por España) or the Monument to the Heroes of the Second of May (Monumento a los Héroes del Dos de Mayo), popularly known as el Obelisco ("the Obelisk"), is a war memorial in Madrid, Spain. It lies on the centre of the Plaza de la Lealtad [es].
Standing close to 30 metre high,[1] the monument is built on the place where General Joachim Murat ordered the execution of numerous Spaniards after the Dos de Mayo Uprising of 1808. After various attempts to create a memorial as an homage to the participants of the uprising, the inauguration of the monument took place on May 2, 1840, the anniversary of the event. On November 22, 1985, King Juan Carlos I re-inaugurated the monument as a memorial to all those who gave their life for Spain, including those that died in conflicts other than the Peninsular War.[2] Since then, a flame fuelled by gas has been constantly burning on the front of the monument. This parallels other war memorials around the world of national symbolic importance, frequently known as the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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^Naranjo, Celia G. (2011). . Madridiario (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
^Galán, Lola (22 November 1985). "El Rey inaugura el monumento a los caídos por España en presencia de ex combatientes de los dos bandos". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2008-11-19.
April 17, 2024
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