It was realised in 1877 by Ricardo Bellver by order of Duke Fernán placed Núñez and in the place that now receives its name: the Place of the Angel Fallen in 1885. What is what drove this Duke to command to realise this statue scandal in its time, is also a mystery. In the National Exhibition of 1878, this statue received the first prize.

If you want to accede directly to her, the park of the retirement by the entrance is from the street Alfonso XII, next to the Public Work School, closely together therefore of Cuesta Moyano (the one of the book positions of second hand) and of the station of Atocha.

In the religions Jewish, Christian and Islamic, a fallen angel is an angel who has been expelled from the sky to disobey or to rebel themselves against mandates of God. According to the known legend more, after the First War in the Sky, many angels were expelled, becoming thus fallen angels. The fallen angel more recognized by history is Lucifer; although this word never is used to talk about to an angel fallen within the Bible. When Lucifer is expelled from the sky, this he happens to be called Satan.

One says that this is the unique sculpture dedicated to an angel fallen existing in the world. When the mayorship of the city contracted a group of historians to publish a book in the 2003, the investigators concluded that the statue of Satan was the unique one raised in one capital of the world, said to Bethlehem Sacristan, spokesman of the Department of Urban Planning of the Madrilenian mayorship.

The statue shows a Lucifer like a beautiful angel (as it describes the Bible to it, most beautiful), his agape mouth by the terror and diabolic serpents surrounding his body, watching at the sky while it falls of the same. One is on a dry trunk, with his great open wings and its face is irritated as desperate shout while with the hand it tries to get rid of the ray demolishes that it. Much people who happen around to his do not know what represents, are many until confuse to him with Cupid, God of the love.

The Church never protested by the existence of the statue in Madrid, since it does not raise the demon, but is a faithful representation of the story of the Bible, said Manuel Bru, spokesman of the archbishopric of Madrid. However, the statue has been already reason for controversy in the past. Many people in the heat of protested in their inauguration by their location park of the Retirement and some priests arrived until exorcising it. Of the River he said that in the decades of 1940 and 1950 the sculpture was the point of contact for satanic rituals, and indicated that the government of Franc studied the possibility of retiring it of the park so that the police could avoid those rituals. After the retirement of the equestrian statue of Francisco Franco of the place of San Juan de la Cruz in 2005 some people they pleaded to clear it. In Madrid at the moment they exist more than 20 satanic sects although no longer they practice ritual around the statue.

Another curiosity is that it is to exactly to 666 (number of the beast) meters on the level of the sea.

After examining these data they take to think to us that one is the less a statue different from all, although nowadays is much more easy to disassemble myths and examining the cyberspace we were whereupon there are the more images of angels fallen in the world and representations of Satan.

Here you can see a series of statues of thematic satanic in which representations of the devil are seen:

This is in the Capitol of Cuba:

This is in Aachen, Germany:

This in Tokyo:

And finally this can be found in Bangkok:

This clear one that the study of the City council of Madrid can aim more at being a tourist reclamation than a faithful reflection of the truth, exists many more representations of the devil in the world, it is only necessary to look for and will see as you find also them.

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