Town Hall side, arch 23
Ferdinand VII
Cartouche
FERNANDO VII
- Sculptor
- Óscar Alvariño
- Year
- 2005
- Where it is
- Town Hall side, arch 23
Who he was
1784–1833 King of Spain
Ferdinand VII was King of Spain and the Indies during the early 19th century, and king of the Spains during the Spanish liberal period. He reigned as a prisoner of Napoleon, in absentia, or without effective sovereignty during the periods of Spanish liberalism, 1808–1813 and 1820–1823 (Trienio Liberal).
Opening paragraph from the Wikipedia article on Ferdinand VII, 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 · 2012-09-02 · file page on Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and colour-matched to sit with the rest.
