[1] The idea of the monument was conceived after the 1936–1939 Civil War and promoted by the Captain General of the Canary Islands Francisco García-Escámez.

[2] It was formulated as a "Monument to the Fallen of Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the War of National Liberation" [sic].

[3] The architectural project was authored by Tomás Navarro, while the sculptures are the work of Enrique Cejas Zaldívar and Alonso Reyes Barroso,[4] and it consisted of a 25 m (82 ft) high cross-like obelisk, a basement and a crypt, while incorporating a series of sculptural features.

[7] The building works reportedly made use of forced labour via political prisoners.

[8] According to a study commissioned by the local government in 2019, the monument violates the Law of Historical Memory, and it needs to undergo a "resignification" process.