Wellington Monument
Granite obelisk over two hundred feet tall, Europe's largest, decades in the building with a pedestal meant for a statue never raised.
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This guide to the Wellington Monument in Dublin turns on an odd gap: the empty stone pedestal at its base, built in 1822 to carry a statue that never arrived. You'll hear about the 1817 fundraising to honor Arthur Wellesley, the Dublin-born general who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo, and how the money for a bronze Wellington on horseback simply ran out. It follows the monument's decades left unfinished, and what finally forced the committee back into action after Wellington's own death.
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