Monument to Hernan Cortes, Medellin, Extremadura, Spain
Monument marking the room where Hernan Cortes was born in 1485, and behind, the Monument to Hernan Cortes, designed by Eduardo Barron and inaugurated in 1890, in Medellin, Extremadura, Spain. Cortes is depicted wearing armour, trampling on Mexican idols and raising the banner of the Cross. Hernan Cortes, 1485-1547, was a Spanish Conquistador who caused the end to the Aztec empire and brought Mexico under the rule of Castile. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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