Rafael del Riego y Flórez was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the establishment of the Liberal Triennium.
Detail from an anonymous portrait of Rafael del Riego (19th century)
Commemorative plaque in Riego's birthplace in Tuña
Portrait of Rafael del Riego by Hippolyte Lecomte, 1820
Rafael del Riego, statue in Oviedo
The Trienio Liberal or Three Liberal Years was a period of three years in the modern history of Spain between 1820 and 1823, when a liberal government ruled Spain after a military uprising in January 1820 by the lieutenant-colonel Rafael de Riego against the absolutist rule of Ferdinand VII.
1820 print depicting the Cortes Generales.
Rafael del Riego (1784–1823), the leader of the Cortes Generales, which sought to restore the 1812 constitution.
Ferdinand VII of Spain, who abolished the Spanish Constitution of 1812 in 1814. Portrait by Francisco Goya, 1814.
Luis María de Borbón y Vallabriga, 14th Count of Chinchón (1777–1823), Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, a liberal churchman who abolished the Spanish Inquisition in 1820. (It would be re-established in 1823.)