In 1894 Eduardo Vicenti [es] (Director–General for Public Instruction) resumed an earlier initiative to erect a statue to Moyano, giving a new impetus to the plan, that had failed to collect enough money up to that moment.

[1] Each side of the lower part of the stone pedestal displays a bronze relief attempting to convey feats of the life of Moyano: the moment he reads his teaching project from the podium of the Congress of Deputies; the moment when Isabella II countersigns his famous 1857 Law; an allegory of an "Angel of the Schools",[3] and the frontal relief, related to the inauguration, featuring an allegory of Pheme holding a cartouche that reads: "al sr. d. claudio moyano y samaniego, por los grandes servicios servicios prestados a la instrucción pública, el profesorado español.

año 1900" ("To Mr. Don Claudio Moyano y Samaniego, for the great services rendered to public instruction, the Spanish teaching staff.

[3][4] The bronze sculpture topping the tall pedestal represents a solemn Moyano in attitude of reading his laws to the people.

[6] Mayor Enrique Tierno Galván decided to return the monument to its (rough) original location on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the Moyano Law in 1982, completing the move on 28 March 1982.