Victorio Macho

Victorio Macho (December 23, 1887, in Palencia – July 13, 1966, in Toledo, Spain) was a renowned 20th-century Spanish sculptor.

He left Spain during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera and went to live in Hendaye, just over the border in the Basque region of France.

After living six months in Colombia, he began an extended stay in Lima in Peru, where he married Zoila Barrós Conti.

Since 1967 this same building houses the Victorio Macho museum, created from Zoila's generous donation to the Spanish State.

From first marriage, in 1917, he married María Martínez de Romarate, widow of a marquis and sister-Guiomar, platonic love of Antonio Machado.

Cristo del Otero , where Macho's tomb is located.
Monument to Benavente (Retiro, Madrid , 1962).