Work has already begun on the installation of a statue dedicated to Maria Pacheco, “The Lioness of Castile”, in the world.Surroundings of Toledo Palaceright in front of the door of the Regional Library, at the meeting point between Cuesta de Carlos V and … Capuchin Hill.
The intervention began b Place the circular base that will support the base on which the bronze statue will sitthe work of Toledo sculptor Julio Martín de Vidales, also the author of the Juan de Padilla sculpture located in the plaza that bears his name and donated at the time by the Solís Foundation.
Installation of this memorialan initiative in which the Toledo City Council, Community Council and regional courts collaboratedIt is the culmination of a process that began more than five years ago.
In 2020, the Socialist Municipal Group of the “Healing and Justice” movement promoted the figure of María Pacheco through a sculpture that will serve as a lasting reminder of her “perseverance and struggle against injustice and for equality and freedom.” The motion was approved by 16 votes (PSOE, Ciudadanos and IU), with 6 members abstaining from the People’s Party and voting against Vox, although its incarnation has been postponed until now.
Also on those dates, on the occasion of the celebration of the fifth centenary of the Communal War (2020-2021), the President of the Cortes, Pablo Bellido, announced that the independent Parliament He will finance the sculpture By María Pacheco as part of the institutional recognition of the most prominent protagonist of the uprising that had its origin and partly its conclusion in Toledo.
“Many of the cities that were built are now in Castilla-La Mancha.” Moreover, “The community takes this name from the communities of Castilla themselves. “And the board also because of the board members who go to see Queen Juana I to try to change the course of history,” Bellido stated at the time.
Since then they have happened I got rid of some sketches – like the equestrian statue of María Pacheco– Until we reach the final piece that will be installed before the end of the year, which will serve as a compensatory act and a public memory for one of the women that history wanted to erase. Five centuries after the mass defeat at Villalar, the name of Charles V and the character of María Pacheco will coexist in the same place.
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