I live in South Florida and there is a neighborhood named after El Cid up in West Palm Beach. When I lived in Buenos Aires I didn’t live far from the monument to El Cid in Caballito. How common are monuments to this guy in Spanish speaking countries?
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For myself I’ve only heard of him in age of empires 2
Outside of the one you mentioned, I have not heard of another one in latam, I know there are a few in the US. BTW, there is a San Martín one in Central Park, and we have a small Statue of Liberty in Belgrano
No
never
I only know of el cid bc I went to toledo one time from a tinder match and they had a bunch of shit about the guy on there along with I think a writer from there
and a bunch of medieval armor for sale. I want to buy the steel knight armor so bad
edit; actually I am big tripping it was valencia
Not that I’m aware of at least.
El Quijote is barely teach in school, I’m pretty sure El Cid isn’t even in the curriculum.
Who?
No, we have more …phallic interests.
Yes, there is a couple streets here in Montevideo called after Mio Cid. However, El Quijote is more popular in that regard.
And highjacking another comment, both books are read on highschool.
Not that I’m aware of.
None that I’m aware of.
Not really.
We used to have Don Quijote and El Cantar del Mio Cid in our school curriculum when I was in high school but I am unsure if it still is.
But I can almost assure we don’t have streets or monuments dedicated to Heroes of Spain like El Cid or Don Pelayo.
We do have a shitton of colonizer pieces of shit monuments and city names, just not those.
What we do have is a lot of liberator monuments, street names, etc. Which is the equivalent since both Pelayo and El Cid are heroes fighting an oppressive colonizer power.
I have know idea who that is
No