The Column to national heroes (History of a monument of Guayaquil) )

In this slide we can find how he tells us the story about a historical monument in the city of Guayaquil. We can find a vocabulary, and at the end of we find questions on the topic.

1. The Column to national Heroes

2. VOCABULARY c r o wning dates back G o verning board T o wards u nl o ad r each w eight height stones t on h alf a lleg o rical g r a nite r ose marble

3. History: The Spanish artist Agustin Querol designed the monument. The inauguration took place on October 9, 1920 as the crowning work to commemorate 100 years of Guayaquil’s independence .

4. The history of the monument dates back to the year of 1821 , a year after independence, when the Governing Board of the Free State of Guayaquil came up with the idea of its Construction in order to immortalize the independence of the then free province of Guayaquil.

5. Towards the end of 1914, 159 stones arrived from Barcelona , weighing a total of 523,000 kilograms. These stones made up the granite and rose marble base and the white marble capital . They were unloaded at the Municipal department .

6. Attractions The monument reaches 27 meters in height, has a weight of 22.5 tons and cost half million sucres . The column is formed by 3 elements: 1) A granite base with four statues corresponding to the four points of a compass, each representing a patriot of independence: Jose Joaquin de Olmedo, Leon de Febres Cordero, Jose de Villamil, and Jose de Antepara .

7. In each corner of the base, there are four other statues. Three are allegorical female figures symbolizing the past, present, and future, and the other is an allegorical male figure symbolizing space . 2) A shaft engraved with the names of patriots, the Declaration of Independence, and an allegory of a people ascending towards liberty .

8. 3) The capital, a statue of a beautiful young woman holding the flame of liberty. The monument also has eight medallions representing the effigies of the following patriots : Miguel de Letamendi , Gregorio Escobedo, Juan Francisco Elizalde, Francisco Maria Roca, Francisco de Paula Lavayen and Rafael Maria de la Cruz Jimena. These men were important protagonists of Independence.

9. Homage to the Patriots of Independence: José de Antepara , José Joaquín de Olmedo, José de Villamil and León de Febres Cordero.

10. • On one side of the column there is the sculpture of a woman which symbolizes Freedom.

11. Engraving of the schooner Alcance , the one that carried the news of the freedom of America . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q13mJkdyE2Y

12. WHO WAS THE ARTIST THAT DESIGNED THE COLUMN OF THE NATIONAL HEROES? WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OS THE MONUMENT? WHERE WAS THE MONUMENT BROUGHT FROM? HOW MUCH DID THE MONUMENT COST ? MENTION THE NAMES OF THE 4 HEROES WHICH ARE AROUND THE MONUMENT.-