Arco de la Victoria | |
Building Type: | triumphal arch |
Location: | Moncloa |
Location City: | Madrid |
Location Town: | --> |
Location Country: | Spain |
Start Date: | 1950 |
Completion Date: | 1956 |
Architect: | Modesto Lopez Otero and Pascual Bravo Sanfeliú |
Arco de la Victoria (pronounced as /es/, "Arch of Victory") is a triumphal arch built in the Moncloa district of Madrid, Spain. The 49-m high arch was constructed at the behest of Francisco Franco to commemorate the victory of Francoist troops in the 1936 Battle of Ciudad Universitaria, part of the Spanish Civil War.[1] [2]
On the northwest face is the text ("The ever-victorious mind gives, donates and dedicates this monument to the here-victorious weapons") and (begun in 1936, completed in 1939).[3] On the southeast is ("Founded by regal generosity and restored by the Caudillo of the Spanish, may the Madrilenian centre for studies flourish in the presence of God") and (begun in 1927, completed in 1956).[4]