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Su Majestad El Rey Juan Carlos I (q.D.g.) inauguró esta escultura con motivo del V Centenario del Regimiento "Soria 9". Puerto del Rosario, 26 de Mayo de 2009.

His Majesty King Juan Carlos I (may God protect him) inaugurated this sculpture on the occasion of the fifth centenary of the "Soria 9" Regiment. Puerto del Rosario, 26 May 2009.

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The sculpture represents an Arquebusier from the famous Tercio of Naples, the first name proudly given in History to the Soria 9 Regiment, the oldest in Europe with origins dating back to 1509. Their clothing normally consisted of a morion, a steel mail cape and a jerkin (clothing made of leather, normally suede, with or without sleeves, that covered the body and fitted tightly to the waist. It olden days it included skirting no lower than the hips) or a leather waistcoat. Their main weapon was the arquebus, which consists of a canon mounted on a wooden support measuring approximately one metre in length, lightened towards the muzzle and reinforced towards the barrel. The additional equipment of the arquebusiers consisted of a bandolier from which the strings of loads of gunpowdeer hung in twelve copper or wooden containers (which were known as "the twelve disciples"), a reserve charge of gunpowder and a knapsack in which the shot, the fuse and the match to light it were kept. They were also armed with a sword.

Text also in Spanish and German.

Sculptor

• Edgardo Junco Nieto (Buenos Aires, Argentina 1944), sculptor (Who's who Fuerteventura).

Tags

• Town: Puerto del Rosario
• Comunidad autónoma: Fuerteventura
• Country: Spain
• Arquebusier
• Junco Nieto, Edgardo

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