The Arch of Victory —popularly known also as the Puerta de la Moncloa, due to its similarity to the gates of Alcalá and Toledo, or as the Arch of Triumph— is a triumphal arch located in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, built between 1950 and 1956.
It is a commemorative work of the victory of the rebel side over the Republican side in the civil war. It is located at one of the main entrances to the capital of Spain, that of the A Coruña highway, in the center of the so-called Avenida de la Memoria in the Moncloa-Aravaca district.
It was built at the initial request of the Permanent Commission of the Board of the University City. The arch has a total height of 49 meters. It is the work of the architects Modesto López-Otero y Bravo and Pascual Bravo Sanfeliú and the ornaments that surround it, by the sculptors Moisés de Huerta y Ayuso (allegorical friezes), some in collaboration with his son Rafael Huerta, Ramón Arregui (Quadriga de Minerva) and José Ortells. The arch has Latin inscriptions that remember the Francoist victory, as well as the construction of the new University City (Complutense University of Madrid) after the battle that destroyed it.
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