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The iconic statue of Christ on the globe sphere of planet Earth is part of the Monument to Divino Salvador del Mundo on Plaza El Salvador del Mundo (The Savior of the World Plaza). The statue was damaged in the 1986 San Salvador earthquake. [3] [4] It was rebuilt and put back in place months after the campaign "Lift up your soul Salvadoran".
The statue is placed on a pedestal of granite that shows battle scenes cast in bronze and the coat of arms of El Salvador. The plaza is an important point of reference for the Salvadoran capital because it is surrounded by emblematic structures such as the National Palace and the Metropolitan Cathedral .
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The statue is a dressed wooden carving, with the national shield of El Salvador embroidered on the front of the image's white robe. Our Lady holds a golden palm leaf in memory of the eruption of the Chaparrastique volcano, which threatened to destroy the city with burning lava.
The Monument to the Reconciliation (Spanish: Monumento a la Reconciliación) was a monument which existed in El Salvador from 2017 until its demolition in 2024.The monument, which was designed by sculptor Napoleón Alberto Escoto, commemorated the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Chapultepec Peace Accords which ended the Salvadoran Civil War.
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Basilica of the Cristo Negro of Esquipulas in Guatemala Black Christ of Esquipulas at Saint Joseph Cathedral of Antigua Guatemala. The Cristos Negros or Black Christs of Central America and Mexico trace their origins to the veneration of an image of Christ on a cross located in the Guatemalan town of Esquipulas, near the Honduran and Salvadoran border.
Atlácatl (Nahuatl Ātlācatl: ātl "water", tlācatl "human being"; died c. 1528) is reputed to have been the name of the last ruler of an Indigenous state based around the city of Cuzcatlan, in the southeastern periphery of Mesoamerica (present-day El Salvador), at the time of the Spanish conquest. Atlácatl appears to have been a myth ...