Monumento a los Caídos
The Monumento a los Caídos rises in Plaza de España in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a coastal setting for a memorial built to honour the Nationalist victors of the Spanish Civil War. The project idea came after the 1936–1939 conflict, promoted by the Captain General of the Canary Islands, Francisco García-Escámez, and framed as a “Monument to the Fallen… in the War of National Liberation.” Architect Tomás Navarro designed the monument, while the sculptural program was created by Enrique Cejas Zaldívar and Alonso Reyes Barroso. At its core stands a cross-like obelisk 25 metres high, supported by a basement and crypt. Its major sculptures include an allegory of the Fatherland holding a fallen soldier, a winged figure representing Victory, and two soldiers with swords, reflecting “civic and military” values; some elements are in bronze or basalt. …
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