It was a Francoist memorial designed by Juan de Ávalos that consisted of a colossal statue of an angel holding a sword.

[2] The Provincial Deputation of Ciudad Real commissioned the project to build the monument and awarded it to Juan de Ávalos.

It stands at the top of a hill, the Cerro de las Aguzaderas, visible from the Manchegan plain and the Madrid–Cádiz national road (currently superseded by the A-4 highway).

[4] Following the attack, far-right Fuerza Nueva organized an event of "redress" in Valdepeñas, in which Blas Piñar intervened and the Cara al Sol was sung.

[4] The monument resulted in a semi ruinous and somewhat "ghostly" condition,[7] with the angel being turned into metal clutter, although the two stone bundles remain.