{"id":5648,"date":"2012-09-13T12:01:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2014-07-15T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:33:19","slug":"cibeles-fountain-a-famous-monument-in-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/cibeles-fountain-a-famous-monument-in-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Cibeles fountain, a famous monument in Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00daltimamente he pasado alg\u00fan tiempo en Madrid. Es una ciudad enorme, con gran variedad de cosas por hacer. Al ser turista en mi tiempo libre, no pude evitar visitar algunos de sus monumentos y lugares m\u00e1s importantes. He paseado por el Retiro, visitado el museo del Prado, y por supuesto (adoro la fotograf\u00eda) he hecho miles de fotos (aunque hoy solo os mostrar\u00e9 una). Revisando algunas de ellas, record\u00e9 un art\u00edculo que le\u00ed sobre Cibeles, una de las estatuas m\u00e1s famosas de Madrid, que se encuentra rodeada de cuatro impresionantes edificios: el Banco de Espa\u00f1a, el Palacio de Buenavista, el Palacio de Linares y el Palacio de Cibeles, o edificio de Correos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Estoy segura de que todos sab\u00e9is que Cibeles era la diosa de la fertilidad, y la tierra. Y que esta fuente es el lugar donde el Real Madrid celebra sus victorias. Pero quiz\u00e1 no sep\u00e1is que tambi\u00e9n la usaban los fans del Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid con el mismo prop\u00f3sito, hasta que decidieron \u201cmudarse\u201d a la fuente de Neptuno para as\u00ed evitar contacto con los \u201cmerengues\u201d (expresi\u00f3n coloquial para referirnos a los jugadores del Real Madrid, y sus fans).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pero algo mucho m\u00e1s interesante es el rumor de que est\u00e1 conectada con el sistema de seguridad del Banco de Espa\u00f1a. Se dice que si las alarmas del banco saltasen, el s\u00f3tano y la c\u00e1mara acorazada se inundar\u00edan con el agua de Cibeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Si no pod\u00e9is ir a Madrid, pero visit\u00e1is M\u00e9jico, encontrar\u00e9is una r\u00e9plica exacta, donada por la comunidad espa\u00f1ola en M\u00e9jico, como regalo de hermanamiento entre ambas ciudades.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Recently, I have spent some time in Madrid. It is big city, with a lot of different things to do. Being myself a tourist in my free time, I couldn\u2019t help visiting some of its most important monuments and places. I have walked in the Retiro, visited the Prado museum, and obviously, (I love photography), I have taken thousands of pictures. Reviewing some of them, I remembered an article I read about Cibeles, one of the most famous statues in Madrid, surrounded by four magnificent buildings: The Bank of Spain, the Palacio de Buenavista, the Palacio de Linares and the Palacio de cibeles or Correos building.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I\u00b4m sure you all know that Cibeles was the goddess of fertility and earth. And that this fountain is the place where Real Madrid celebrates its victories. But maybe you didn\u2019t know that it was also used by Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid fans with the same purpose, till they decided to move to Neptune\u2019s fountain to avoid contact with the \u201cmerengue\u201d (usual way to refer to Real Madrid players and fans) celebrations<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But something much more interesting is the rumour that it is connected with Banco de Espa\u00f1a security system. It is said that if the bank alarms went off, its basement and the vault would be flood with Cibeles water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you can\u2019t go to Madrid, but you visit M\u00e9xico, you will find an exact replica, donated by the Spanish community in Mexico, as a twinning present between both cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/cibeles-2-350x273.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/cibeles-2-350x273.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/cibeles-2-768x598.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/cibeles-2-1024x798.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>\u00daltimamente he pasado alg\u00fan tiempo en Madrid. Es una ciudad enorme, con gran variedad de cosas por hacer. Al ser turista en mi tiempo libre, no pude evitar visitar algunos de sus monumentos y lugares m\u00e1s importantes. He paseado por el Retiro, visitado el museo del Prado, y por supuesto (adoro la fotograf\u00eda) he hecho&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/cibeles-fountain-a-famous-monument-in-madrid\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":5650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7354,222978,358362],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-celebrations","tag-monuments","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8112,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/8112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}