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refused to travel to Granada to inaugurate the monument. This caused a revolt in the city that ended with fires, riots and barricades. With the town in arms, after setting fire to the withered ornamental arches that had been prepared time ago to welcome the royal retinue, the scorned people of
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The bronze sculptural group topping off the monument depicts a meeting of Columbus with Queen Isabella, seated on her throne. The upper part of the pedestal serves as a staircase on which Columbus stops to bow to the queen. The sculptural group was also reportedly set to include a figure of
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did not have even a fraction of the budget needed to carry out such impressively large-scale endeavour, so a public contest for a new project was called. After the contest was declared void, Prime Minister
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By 1890, several Spanish cities had already set arrangements in motion in order to erect their own commemorative monument to the 400th anniversary of the
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The commemoration of the 400th anniversary utterly failed; it did not even take place on 12 October as it was intended in the first place. Queen regent
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was tentatively proposed as project for the commemoration of the 400th anniversary. However, even after asking for funds to the
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In the case of Granada, a bombastic triumphal arch featuring a mashup of Aztec, Hispano–Arab and Renaissance styles sketched by
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Following a 1961 resolution, the monument was relocated in 1962 by the Ayuntamiento de Granada to its current placement at the
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Granada informally unveiled the monument on 2 November 1892, then placed in its original location at the Paseo del Salón.
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A nearly 50 metre high triumphal arch, an earlier bombastic project by
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Revista Internacional de Investigación en Comunicación aDResearch ESIC
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Historia y política a través de la Escultura pública 1820-1920
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Romero-Sánchez, Guadalupe; Marfil-Carmona, Rafael (2020).
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List of monuments and memorials to Christopher Columbus
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Díez, José Luis (2013). "El dominio de la escultura".
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first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas
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37°10′32″N 3°35′51″W / 37.175649°N 3.597444°W / 37.175649; -3.597444
Plaza de Isabel la Católica
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Granada
Mariano Benlliure
Bronze
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Isabella I of Castile
Christopher Columbus
Columbian exploration of the Americas
Spanish
Granada
Mariano Benlliure
Isabella I of Castile
Christopher Columbus

Justo de Gandarias
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first voyage of Christopher Columbus to the Americas
Justo de Gandarias
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Government of Spain
Ayuntamiento de Granada
Cánovas del Castillo
Mariano Benlliure
Boabdil
Maria Christina of Habsburg–Lorraine
Plaza de Isabel la Católica
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