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Spanish World Cup football fans celebrate in Trafalgar Square the morning after their team's victory in South Africa. With a summer sky overhead, we we see on top of one of the four lions that corner the plinth of Nelson's Column, two young male Spaniards, one of whom is holding the Spanish colours (known commonly as Rojigualda) complete with the outline of a bull. The four lions were designed by Sir Edwin Landseer. Positioned at the column's base, they were added in 1867 many years after the Square was developed between 1840 and 1843 to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It is not without too much irony that the British nation's former enemy show their flag at this famous location, known for a victory over Napoleon.

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Spanish World Cup football fans celebrate in Trafalgar Square the morning after their team's victory in South Africa. With a summer sky overhead, we we see on top of one of the four lions that corner the plinth of Nelson's Column, two young male Spaniards, one of whom is holding the Spanish colours (known commonly as Rojigualda) complete with the outline of a bull. The four lions were designed by Sir Edwin Landseer. Positioned at the column's base, they were added in 1867 many years after the Square was developed between 1840 and 1843 to commemorate Admiral Horatio Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It is not without too much irony that the British nation's former enemy show their flag at this famous location, known for a victory over Napoleon.
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