The public is invited to join the City of St. Augustine for Don Pedro Menendez de Avilés Birthday Celebration on Friday, February 14, 2025 at 11:00am. Help mark his 506th Birthday with a brief, wreath laying ceremony at the base of his statue in front of City Hall.
A processional by a group of re-enactors from Historic Florida Militia is included, as well as a reading of the proclamation by Mayor Nancy Sikes-Kline.
Menendez, who founded the city on September 8, 1565, was born in Avilés, a port city in the Asturias region of Spain, on February 15, 1519.
The area in front of city hall was named Parque de Menendez in a ceremony on February 15, 1978, by the City Commission which was attended by the Ambassador of Spain to the United States. The statute itself is a replica of one in Avilés, given by “the People of Avilés, Spain to the People of St. Augustine, Florida” on September 8, 1972.
