Untitled - St. Augustine, FL - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

This 30-foot tall obelisk has a sphere on its top. It is mounted on a multi-tiered rectangular base. On each side of the base is a rectangular inset inscribed with "Plaza de la Constitucion."

"This thirty-foot-tall obelisk was dedicated on February 14, 1814, following the adoption of the liberal Spanish constitution. A royal order required the provincial towns to erect monuments to commemorate the event. Not long afterward, the constitution was revoked and the monuments were ordered taken down, but St. Augustine refused.

The monument bears small tablets designating this area as "Plaza de la Constitucion." When the government ordered that the monument be taken down, St. Augustine only removed the tablets from it. They were reattached to the monument in 1818."

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Beneath one of the four tablets is a larger inscription in Spanish:

TITLE: Untitled ARTIST(S): Unknown DATE: Installed 1814. MEDIUM: Sculpture: stone; Base: stone. CONTROL NUMBER: IAS FL000541 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Plaza de la Constitucion, St. Augustine, Florida. DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: The Smithsonian Inventory Description states: "An obelisk with possibly a sphere on top..." However, there is definitely a sphere on top. No possibly about it.

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