Description

A contest took place in Paris in 1929 to select the best project for the building, in Quito, of a monument dedicated to Simón Bolívar. 154 models were received from 20 different countries and a French group, which included sculptors Jacques Zwobada and René Letourneur, and the architects Félix Bruneau, René Marouzeau and Luis Emilio Galey, won the contest. The monument was unveiled on July 24, 1935 by the then president José Maria Velasco Ibarra. Simón Bolívar, known as 'The Liberator', was the driving force behind the Independence movements in countries such as Ecuador, Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. The statue can be found in the Alameda Park.