2022 - Guanajuato, Mexico - 22 - El Monumento al Pípila

            El Pípila at night - 1 of 2.

El Monumento al Pípila stands high above Centro Guanajuato and commemorates a hero of the city.

The monument honours the one  who torched the Alhóndiga de Ganaditas, a former town granary 28 September, 1810, enabling Miguel Hidalgo's forces to win the first victory of the Mexican independence movement against Spanish rule.

In 1810, Miguel Hidalgo led his ragtag peasant army to the rich city of Guanajuato. 

The undermanned Spanish garrison was routed and the surviving soldiers and many wealth citizens barricaded themselves in the granary.

 "El Pipila" rushed to the granary door with a torch and lit it on fire, killing all the occupants.

Known as El Pípila today, his real name was Juan José de los Reyes Martínez Amaro a miner who worked in the mountains around the city.

The Monument to Pípila was created by the sculptor Juan Fernando Olaguíbel and erected here in 1939.

The 20 meter statue made of pink sandstone was carved in the classical representation of El Pipila with the flame, that  burnt the door, held in his right hand high above the city.

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Taken in: Mexico / Guanajuato / Nuevo Guanajuato (show map)

Taken on: November 5, 2022

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