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Monument to the Heroes of The Restoration of Santiago.

It situated to the entrance of the city of Santiago, has an approximate height of 70 m.is a monument located in Santiago de los Caballeros, in Dominican Republic. The "Monument to the Peace of Trujillo", as originally was called, was erected by orders of the tyrant Trujillo in its honor. It was designed by the architect Henry Gazón Bona. Its construction in the year of the first centennial of the National Independence is initiated (1944), being given its first peck April 30, the Presided year by the Governing one Isabel Mayer, and remaining concluded the same year to commemorate the 100 years of the Dominican independence. At the fallen of Trujillo, it was given the name of Monument to the Heroes of the Restoration, that conserves to date. It is located in the top of a hill in the part this of the city. The Monument is a tower of some 70 meters of high, cover partly of marble. In its interior there are mural commemorative of the famous Spanish painter Watches Zanetti, and a stair with 365 steps that arrives to the stop. Its ornamentation is constituted by a vault cornices series, in harmony with all the work being completed the assembly with elegant columns ionic style with flats and bases of marble, besides the famous lamps of rock crystal.

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