Statue of Queen Isabella II of Spain (Manila)

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Standing majestically along Magallanes Drive in Intramuros, in front of the gate that bears its name is the statue of Queen Isabella II. The statue of the Bourbon queen was created to perpetuate her memory in a colony half way around the world.

Queen Isabella II (1830-1904) ordered a Spanish sculptor Ponciano Ponzano to cast a bronze statue of her image in a traje official with one hand holding a symbolic key and the other a dagger by her chest. The finished statue that was shipped to Manila was slightly different from what the queen has ordered. The image shows the queens gloved right hand held a handkerchief and scepter, while the left held a piece of paper with a text dated 1854 (as how it is shown today). She was queen of Spain from 1833-1868.