The public construction of the National Monarchy. Contexts, meanings and ceremonials around the monument to the Spanish Homeland personified in the King Alfonso XII (1886-1922)
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https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i20.590Keywords:
Monuments, memory, National Monarchy, Alfonso XII of Borbon, Maria Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena, Alfonso XIII of BorbonAbstract
From a political-cultural approach, this text focuses on the main milestones, meanings and ceremonials referred to the extensive process of projection and material and symbolic construction of the great memorial, emblem par excellence of reaffirmation of the National Monarchy during the Spanish Restoration, erected in the park El Retiro in Madrid, and dedicated "to the Spanish Homeland personified in the King D. Alfonso XII". The study covers the period 1886-1922. The staging of official acts was presided by Alfonso XIII de Borbon: laying of the first stone (1902) and inauguration (1922).
Enviado el (Submission Date): 27/04/2019
Aceptado el (Acceptance Date): 12/05/2019
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2019-05-02
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Kings at grassroots levels. Monarchical Symbolism and Public Space in Southern Europe (XIX and XX centuries)
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