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The National Monument represents the day when the Costa Ricans with Juan Santamaría to the head won in the war against the filibusters in Nicaragua in 1856. It is a symbol of the Central American struggle against the foreign invader. The Monument locates in the National Park in cardinal San Jose.
The develización of the National Monument did to herself September 15, 1895 and it was in charge of the president of the Republic, Rafael Iglesias. It served to show to the Costa Ricans and Central American delegates the military potential of the government and the wealth of the liberal Costa Rica of that epoch.
The work was executed in bronze, on a pedestal, with seven figures in representations of five Republics of Central America - Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador - joining to defend his territory and to push the invasion personified by William Wálker back; the seventh figure is a dead soldier.In the center of the group, at major level, Costa Rica yergue, hoisting the national pavilion has the frigio bonnet, symbol of the freedom. It supports Nicaragua with the broken sword and the veiled face that symbolizes the duel for the occupation.
Nevertheless, with another hand in the flag, Costa Rica indicates that the way to other republics you join.
It is the figure bow of the Monument, which remembers the Costa Rican leadership during the National Campaign. As for the weapon, Guatemala clutches the axe, El Salvador a sword and Honduras you flower with the shield, which means resistance.
All this weapon, indigenous and colonial, they symbolize the unitary history of Central America, and motivate the union of the Big Homeland against the invader, Walker, who, doblegado for the onrush, flees, with the rifle in hand.
Four bas-reliefs of the pedestal represent:
The battle of Pink Saint (March 20, 1856).
The battle of Rivas (April 11, 1856, episode of Juan Santamaría).The capture of the river Saint John.
The chiefs of the national Central American campaign about the president Juan Rafael Mora Porras.
Also, they adorn the pedestal, shields and fasces, that the justice symbolizes.
The National Monument was finished in Paris in 1891 and, therefore, it takes the following inscription: " Louis Carrier Belleuse, 1891 ".
