Commissioned during the Restoration period in the context of the need to define the national unity under the light of Liberal Bourgeois lines (in clash with reactionary Carlist forces), the monument to General Baldomero Espartero—one of the champions in the struggle against Carlism—came to embody a symbol of "peacemaking".

[1] The execution of the public contest was awarded to the Gibert's preliminary project titled Gloria al Pacificador ("Glory to the Peacemaker") in 1884.

[2] Works started in 1885, and the bronze statue—Espartero triumphantly entering the city while riding his horse and greeting with a hand that holds a bicorne—was cast at J. Comas y Hermanos' foundry in Barcelona.

[3] The pedestal features two lateral reliefs, also by Gibert, respectively depicting the Battle of the Bridge of Luchana and the Embrace of Vergara, while the front side reads A Espartero el pacificador.

[5] The horse's testicular attributes, just like those of its replica in Logroño, are linked to the origin of Spanish-language popular aphorisms such as "tiene los cojones como el caballo de Espartero", "tienes más huevos que el caballo de Espartero" or "le ha echado más huevos que el caballo de Espartero",[6] comparing the "balls" of someone to those of the horse, used when it comes to point out the courage or bravery of that person in some difficult situation.