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Now called the “father of aviation” in Spain, the [[Spanish Air Force]] dedicated a monument to him that is located next to the castle where he took flight.<ref>{{cite web|author=c |url=http://www.terra.es/personal/soportal/laribera/coruna.html |title=Coruña del Conde, Clunia, Diego Marín Aguilera |publisher=Terra.es }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.panoramio.com/photo/21505 |title=Photo of Coruña del Conde |publisher=Panoramio }}</ref> The castle was offered for sale for [[Euro|€]]1 in 2002, on the condition that the buyer restore the crumbling building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/1855623.stm |title=MEDIA REPORTS | Castle in Spain going for a song |publisher=BBC News |date=March 8, 2002 }}</ref>
Of Marín, the [[American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics]] writes: "It is impossible to determine how much truth there is to the story of Marín, but it seems that he did achieve some gliding flight, surviving after structural failure and a crash landing. Marín, who had no formal scientific education, was endowed with a special technical ingenuity and is a good example of the ageless human aspiration toward flight."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aiaa.org/Secondary.aspx?id=370|title=Spain:History of Flight from Around the World|publisher=The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics|date=May 14, 2014}}</ref> They credit him with a flight of approximately 360 meters.{{Citation needed|date = May 2017}}
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