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The Fallen Angel monument.
17:03 Jul 05 2022
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The Fuente del Ángel Caído (Fountain of the Fallen Angel or Monument of the Fallen Angel) is a fountain located in the Buen Retiro Park in Madrid, Spain.

The statue that crowns the monument is the masterpiece of Ricardo Bellver who realized it in plaster in 1877 while a 3rd year pensioner in Rome, inspired by verses from Paradise Lost of John Milton (Canto I). He submitted it to the 1877 edition of the Exposiciones Nacionales de Bellas Artes where it received the first prize. The state acquired the work and presented it to the 1878 Exposition Universelle. Since only works in marble and bronze were accepted, the statue was cast in bronze at this occasion and the plaster original destroyed.

The Fountain of the Fallen Angel is located at an official topographic altitude of 666 meters above sea level in Madrid. This coincidence with the so-called Number of the Beast, coupled with the existence of a false modern popular belief according to which the monument is a sort of "homage" to Lucifer, to evil, or to the heretical, has aroused the imagination of many esotericism aficionados. However, this fact is not at all uncommon in Madrid, as the average height of the Spanish capital is 666 meters above the aforementioned reference.

Many people believe that this is the only monument in the world alluding to the Fallen Angel, but this is not true, as in the city of Turin (Italy) there is a sculpture of Lucifer at the top of the Monument to the Traforo del Frejus, in Tandapi (Quito, Ecuador) the work entitled The brutal power represents the face of the Devil and there is also the Statue of the Rebel Angel in the National Capitol of Havana (Cuba).