Un solar emblemático del Bilbao decimonónico. Distintos proyectos para los terrenos del Convento de San Agustín y el monumento a los caídos en la Primera Guerra Carlista del Cementerio de Mallona
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Universidad de Salamanca
info
ISSN: 1137-4888
Argitalpen urtea: 2000
Zenbakien izenburua: LOS BILBAO SOÑADOS. BILBO AMESTUAK
Zenbakia: 8
Orrialdeak: 213-244
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Bidebarrieta: Revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales de Bilbao
Laburpena
During the final two thirds of the XIX century, the grounds of the old Convent of San Agustín held a special significance for the population of Bilbao, since this was where the population of Bilbao put up a heroic resistance to the siege by Carlist troops in 1836. This event led to the successive formulation of different projects for commemorative and funereal monuments, and even for squares with porticoes, intended to perpetuate the memory of those who fell in that engagement. However, economic problems prevented their realisation and the grounds were finally used for building the present day Town Hall. The aim of my paper will be to analyse all of these projects from the symbolic and artistic point of view.