Charles lll of Bourbon

His equestrian statue erected in Madrid in 1994 is a replica of a smaller one by Juan Pascal de Mena. The statue already had to be restored in 2000, because of the many pigeons using the statue to roost and to leave their droppings. Use was made of this opportunity to place inside the statue a sensor that emits a sound that keeps the pigeons away. Another statue (by Canova) of Charles III of Bourbon, as King of Naples, the town he captured in 1734, stands in that city. 

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