El Cid

El Cid Campeador is an outdoor equestrian statue depicting the 11th-century Spanish knight and warlord El Cid by artist Anna Hyatt Huntington, architect William Templeton Johnson, and the foundry General Bronze Company, installed at Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama in San Diego, California. The bronze sculpture was created in 1927 and dedicated on July 5, 1930. The statue measures approximately 11 ft × 9 ft × 7 ft (3.4 m × 2.7 m × 2.1 m), with a 16 ft (4.9 m) diameter, and its concrete or Indiana limestone base measures approximately 11 ft × 14 ft × 8 ft (3.4 m × 4.3 m × 2.4 m).

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