Statue of Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo
…Central de Acción Católica after the death of Menéndez Pelayo in 1912, the idea was endorsed by the director of the National Library of Spain (BNE), Francisco Rodríguez Marín. The project was entrusted to Lorenzo Coullaut Valera and the sculptor presented the plaster model by 1916. Made of limestone from Novelda, the monument…