In the most famous square in the city, Puerta del Sol, we find a statue of King Carlos III presiding. This sculpture was made in 1994 following a model by the artist Pascual de Mena, which was in the collection of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando after a popular referendum was held to determine where the people of Madrid wanted to place the statue of the man considered the best mayor of the city. The effigy has a stone pedestal with an inscription alluding to the achievements of his reign following the Roman model of Trajan's Column, on the front another one that reads "Carlos III king of Spain," and on the back "Madrid of the enlightened king."