The statue of Miguel de Cervantes in Madrid was erected at the Plaza de España in 1929. Its central part is the figure of a sitting writer, at whose feet there are bronze sculptures of two heroes of his most popular novel, Don Quixote, riding his horse Rosynanta and Sancho Pansa on a donkey.
At the top of the monument was placed a globe with five continents marked on it, which is to symbolize the expansion of the Spanish language around the world. The monument is also decorated with two sculptures - allegories of "Reality" and "Fiction" and the image of the Empress Isabella of Portugal.
Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra was a well-known Renaissance writer of Spanish origin, he was extremely popular with the novel Fri. "The ingenious nobleman Don Quixote of Mancha" (El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha) from 1605. The monument was designed by architect Rafael Martínez Zapatero and sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut Valera.
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