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The monument is a sculpture of his head located at the beginning of the Bulevar de la Constitución, the plaque nest to it reads:
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
El Gran Capitán
Obra del escultor Muiguel Moreno
Donada a la ciudade por Fundación Caja Rural de Granada
Granada Marzo de 2010
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
The Great Captain
Work of the sculptor Muiguel Moreno
Donated to the city by Fundación Caja Rural de Granada
Granada March 2010
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba
"Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Enríquez de Aguilar, 1st Duke of Santángelo (1 September 1453 – 2 December 1515) was a Spanish general and statesman who led successful military campaigns during the Conquest of Granada and the Italian Wars. His military victories and widespread popularity earned him the nickname "El Gran Capitán" ("The Great Captain"). He also negotiated the final surrender of Granada and later served as Viceroy of Naples. Fernández de Córdoba was a masterful military strategist and tactician. He was the first European to introduce the successful use of firearms on the battlefield and he reorganized his infantry to include pikes and firearms in effective defensive and offensive formations. The changes implemented by Gonzalo were instrumental in making the Spanish army the dominant force in Europe for more than a hundred years. For his extensive political and military success, he was made Duke of Santángelo (1497), Terranova (1502), Andría, Montalto and Sessa (1507)."
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