Queen Isabella, Bronze statue at Pan American Union Building, Washington DC, United States.

Queen Isabella is an outdoor sculpture of Isabella I of Castile by Spanish sculptor José Luis Sánchez, installed outside the Pan American Union Building of the Organization of American States at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. The figure wears a crown and robes decorated with the heraldic devices of Castile, León, Aragon and Navarre, and holds a large pomegranate with a dove at its centre.

The statue was dedicated in 1966 to mark 475 years since Columbus first spotted the Americas. Spain gifted the work to acknowledge the historical link that Columbus's voyage created between Europe and the New World.

The statue was a gift from the Institute of Hispanic Culture, a Madrid-based institution of the Spanish State, presented on April 14, 1966. Isabella was chosen because she sponsored Columbus's first voyage. In 2022, Indigenous rights activists draped it in Andean pollera dress and called for its removal, citing her role in colonization, the genocide of Indigenous Americans and the Atlantic slave trade.

The statue stands at the corner of 17th Street and Constitution Avenue, easy to reach from downtown Washington. The public plaza in front of the building provides good viewing angles throughout the day.

The queen holds a pomegranate in both hands with a dove perched upon it, merging Spanish symbols together. This detail is easy to miss, but it combines multiple meaningful elements of Spanish heritage in a single gesture.