In spite of its flamboyant colour, this vehicle cannot "compete" with Cibeles' chariot behind it ... nor can this "powered" engine win over the lion-pulled powerful strength, proudly displayed in the photograph.
This Francisco Gutiérrez' 17th century Cibeles is too imposing to allow anyone to look down on her ... and irrespective of being the Goddess of Fertility, carrying the sceptre in one hand, she is also holding the city key in the other, thus having become the symbol of Madrid. Roberto Michel sculpted the lions ...
The whole statue is, without any doubt, impressive ...
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