The montaña del Príncipe Pío is a hill in the western part of

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

, Spain.

Background

It is named after prince Gisberto Pío de Saboya, a member of the

Pio di Savoia Pio (later Pio di Savoia), an ancient noble Italian family, was first mentioned by good authorities in the 14th century. After having long contended for the city of Modena with the House of Este, in 1336 they eventually agreed to renounce it, on c ...

family, whose wife Juana de Moura owned property there. Later, barracks (''Cuartel de la Montaña'') were constructed there. The Madrilene rebels who fought the Napoleonic invaders were executed there on the morning of 3 May 1808, as painted by

Francisco de Goya Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; ; 30 March 174616 April 1828) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His paintings, drawings, and e ...

. Around the 1960s, the barracks were demolished to make room for the Parque del Oeste. The former location of the barracks is now the site of the

Temple of Debod The Temple of Debod ( es, Templo de Debod) is an ancient Egyptian temple that was dismantled as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia and rebuilt in the center of Madrid, Spain, in Parque de la Montaña, Madrid, a squ ...

, a Nubian temple given by the Egyptian government to Spain in gratitude for Spanish help in saving antiquities during the building of the

Aswan Dam The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1960s, the Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. Its significance largely eclipsed the previous Aswan L ...

References

Geography of Madrid Hills of Spain Landforms of the Community of Madrid Moncloa-Aravaca {{madrid-geo-stub