The angel of the Cathedral of Girona crowns the bell tower of the Cathedral and acts as a weathervane, as it turns and points out the direction of the wind. The current figure is the third angel that has had the Cathedral of the city.
However, despite the fact that for centuries the citizens of Girona have referred to as an angel, at first it was a representation of faith, a winged figure but blindfolded eyes, although due to its elevated situation detail went unnoticed.
The Gerona of the generations before the sixties of the twentieth century had always seen the figure of a decapitated angel. The popular voice attributed the mutilation to the destructive action of a bomb of the Napoleonic artillery during the siege of 1809. Other opinions attributed to the action of lightning. Both options were plausible.
Therefore, the most obvious distinctive fact was its wings and everyone associated it with an angel.