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on February 25, 2019

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The General Who Had Two Deaths

The General Who Had Two Deaths When the works on the Plaza de Andalucía in Úbeda were undertaken in the 1990s involving the construction of an underground car park, one of the city's more controversial monuments, the one erected to honour General Leopoldo Saro, Count of Ixdain, accused of being a symbol of Francoism, was removed from public view. The statue and its stone basement, a work by Jaén native Jacinto Higueras, was stored in a municipal warehouse to be lost and forgotten about. It would lie there for seven years with the bronze suffering some minor damage and the head of the figure of Victory from the stone plinth on which it stood would disappear altogether. However in 2006, a controversy at the heart of the city government would lead to a major fall-out between political parties that threatened to bring down a fragile coalition and would ultimately see the return of General Saro to the Plaza de Andalucía. Born in the then Spanish colony of Cuba in January 1878, s...

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