The Warrior on a Horse statue is one of the main symbols of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje_2014" class="extiw" title="en:Skopje 2014">Skopje 2014</a> project and is located in the center of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_Square,_Skopje" class="extiw" title="en:Macedonia Square, Skopje">Macedonia Square</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje" class="extiw" title="en:Skopje">Skopje</a>, capital of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Macedonia" class="extiw" title="en:Republic of Macedonia">Republic of Macedonia</a>. Although it is not officially named for him, it is typically thought to depict <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" class="extiw" title="en:Alexander the Great">Alexander the Great</a>. The statue was sculpted by Valentina Stefanovska and completed on September 8, 2011 to commemorate 20 years of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Republic_of_Macedonia" class="extiw" title="en:History of the Republic of Macedonia">independence of the Republic of Macedonia</a>. The bronze sculpture is 14.5 m tall and it sits on a cylindrical column, which itself is 10 m in height. The column consists of three large ivory sections containing reliefs, each separated by a thinner bronze ring. Each section contains reliefs. The column stands in a fountain and at the base of the column there are 8 bronze soldiers, each 3 m tall and 8 bronze lions, each 2.5 m tall.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28147777" class="extiw" title="d:Q28147777"><span title="Spanish photographer (1974-)">Diego Delso</span></a>
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