Petrineros side, arch 23
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona
DON JUAN DE BORBON
- Sculptor
- Óscar Alvariño
- Year
- 2005
- Where it is
- Petrineros side, arch 23
The arch next to it, number 24, has its stone circle carved and the face left blank. The 21 blank ones
Who he was
1913–1993 Spanish infante
Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, was a claimant to the Spanish throne as Juan III. He was the third son and designated heir of King Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg. His father was replaced by the Second Spanish Republic in 1931. Juan's son Juan Carlos I became King of Spain when Spain's constitutional monarchy was restored in 1975.
Opening paragraph from the Wikipedia article on Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, in the revision we consulted, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Birth and death dates come from Wikidata.
Photograph: Basilio · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 2012-08-30 · file page on Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and colour-matched to sit with the rest.
