Monumento ecuestre de Fernando el Santo

In the Plaza Nueva, there is a bronze equestrian monument of Fernando el Santo on a limestone pedestal. He took Seville in 1248. The monument is dedicated to him as a saint, a status he received in 1671.

The city first approved a plan for a fountain and statue in 1848, but the project was stalled until 1861. The first stone was laid in 1877, and forty-seven years later, the monument was inaugurated on 15 of a month in 1924.

Artists Juan Talavera y Heredia and Joaquín Bilbao Martínez worked on the design. Joaquín realized the sculpture of San Fernando with a scepter. The pedestal features figures including his son Alfonso X, the admiral Ramón Bonifaz, the bishop Don Remondo, and the knight Garci Pérez de Vargas.

Today, the monument stands in the Arenal neighborhood of the Casco Antiguo.

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