This article deals with the formation of the Aragonese identity ideology, through the celebration of the reconquest of Zaragoza in 1118, a military operation led by the king Alfonso I, who allowed him to snatch the city of Zaragoza from the Almoravides. To this end, a link was established between identity and memory as part of a phenomenon in which some Aragonese politicians felt the need to immortalize through the use of heritage made like this. The analysis has as its starting point the tensions that cross the project for the execution of a space for the commemoration of the VIII centenary of the conquest of the Aragonese capital and its putting in value, as well as its final execution that today we can continue to contemplate in Zaragoza, and its relationship with other public sculptures that built the collective Aragonese imaginary at the turn of the century.