Por España y por mi fe aquí muerto me quedé. On monuments from the Franco era of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) in Burgos province

Abstract

The Pyramid of the Puerto del Escudo, or the Pyramid of the Italians, stands beside the road from Burgos to Santander (the N-623). Linked to the military ossuaries built in the time of Mussolini in homage to Italian war dead of the First World War, the fascist leader is still present in the Burgos monument, where the remains of hundreds of Italian fighters who fell in the Northern campaign of the summer of 1937 are buried. The monument by the architects Olasagasti and Olano is dedicated to Antonio Sagardía and his 62nd division. Located beside the N-623, it takes the form of a ship’s prow (or an eagle) with futuristic resonances. In Alcocero, very close to La Brújula, another monument was built in homage to Emilio Mola, head of the Northern nationalist army, who died there in a plane crash in June 1937.