Work has already begun on installing a sculpture dedicated to Maria Pacheco, the Lioness of Castile.Around the Alcazar in Toledoat the junction between Cuesta de Carlos V and Cuesta de Carlos V, directly in front of the Regional Library door. … Capuchin Hill.
The intervention began with Arrangement of the circular pedestal that supports the pedestal on which the bronze statue is placed.the work of the Toledo sculptor Julio Martín de Vidales, who is also the author of the Juan de Padilla sculpture in the square that bears his name and was donated by the Solís Foundation at the time.
Setting up this monumenta collaborative effort between Toledo City Council, Community Board, and District Court.the culmination of a process that began more than five years ago.
In 2020, the socialist municipality promoted the “Recover and Do Justice” movement on the statue of María Pacheco, with a sculpture that will forever remember “her tenacity against injustice and her fight for equality and freedom.” This proposal was passed with 16 votes in favor. (PSOE, Ciudadanos, IU), six members of the PP abstained and voted against Vox, but its realization has been postponed until now.
Also around these dates, on the occasion of celebrating the 5th anniversary of the Community War (2020-2021), Pablo Berrido, President of Cortes, announced that the Autonomous Assembly: would fund the sculpture This work by María Pacheco was created as part of the institutional recognition of the most prominent protagonist of the revolt, whose origins and epilogue were partly in Toledo.
“Many of the cities built are now in Castile-La Mancha” and further “This community gets its name from the Castilian community itself. And the board is also indebted to a board of community members who are going to meet Queen Juana I to try to change the course of history,” Bellido said at the time.
Since then they have happened, Discarded some sketches – e.g. equestrian sculpture by Maria Pacheco– until the end of the year when we arrive at a definitive piece that will be installed and serve as an act of redemption and public memory for one of the women history wanted to erase. Five centuries after the defeat of the community at Villarar, the name of Charles V and the figure of Maria Pacheco coexist in the same space.
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