MONUMENTO A LA VICTORIA

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
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Juan de valos' sculpture dates from 1940 and was carried out with funds that were collected in his day through a campaign in the press and radio. It is a rich sculptural work that shows the ideological intent of the power prevailing in the era. It wants to symbolize General Franco as a savior that flies over the wings of an angel. The image is somewhat idyllic, with the sword as a symbol, which in no way resembles the general. It is one of the examples of art that prevailed in Spain in the post-war era. The monument was inaugurated in 1966

MONUMENT TO VICTORY: Francisco Eliezer Garc to Gonz lez. Criteria for Intervention in Architectural Heritage. University of La Laguna. 2010

Editorial and research team : Architecture Unit of the CICOP Foundation.

Miguel ngel Fern ndez Matr n.

Jos Luis D will read Mart nez.

Sendy Hern ndez lvarez.

Photograph: Jos M. Bossini Ruiz.

Debora Valverde Soto (Technological Institute of Costa Rica)

The rich sculpture set is made of cast bronze and patinated on an iron armor. It is integrated into the environment that ends the former Barracks of Almeyda today Military Museum. At the confluence of the Rambla de Santa Cruz with Francisco La Roche Avenue.

The pond that contains the monument has an approximate dimension of 30 meters in diameter, the set is framed with a wall at the bottom of great Tica stone, which borders the Almeyda Military Museum, formed by nine pilasters of fourteen meters of height crowned by the shields of the islands and that of the city, and joined together by eight spaces in the form of a stepped slope, with five spillways each where it falls into the water.

From the urban point of view, the location of this work constitutes a solution in balance with the space it occupies, making it a distributor of some of the most important roads in the city such as the Rambla de Santa Cruz and Avenida Francisco La Roche.

The monument is surrounded by a sidewalk, next to it there is a low-rise metal railing, which serves to delimit a perimeter garden to the work. This garden has 2 species of plants, of low and medium height.

The work has 2 accesses to its base, one on each side of the main streets that surround it, that of Av. Francisco La Roche is by an 8-step staircase, while that of the Rambla by the slope of the site the income is at the sidewalk level. The base has a slab stone finish and is divided from the garden by a metal railing ...