THE FALLEN ANGEL AT RETIRO PARK IN MADRID

This statue was esculpted by Ricardo Belver in Rome. It was award-winner with the first class medal in the National Eshibition in 1878 and in 1885 was put in its actual place.
Many people from Madrid were opposed to this initiative, nost of all clergy, but the Duke Fernan Nuñez, who was the promoter of this idea gave a larga amount of money in order to put it in its actual emplacement.
Since then it has turned into one of the statues most visiter in the park. You can see a beautiful angel with a frightened open mouth staring how he is sent off from heaven pushed by terrible snakes coiled around his body.
Actually, this statue it´s exactly at 666 metres above sea level, measure that you can checked with a GPS, for example.
In this place, in the last years and in ay ocassions, different followers groups meet around it looking for thinking and inspiration to their projects, and to have strange rituals in area around it.
The gargoyles are waiting with their horrifying faces to catch him.