BARCELONA, Spain.
Junction of Passeig Lluís Companys and Ronda de Sant Pere
Junction of Passeig Lluís Companys and Ronda de Sant Pere
Memorial to Lluís Companys (Tornabous, 21 June 1882 -
Barcelona, shot by the regime of General Franco, 15 October 1940), Catalan
Republican politician who was president of the Generalitat (Government) of
Catalonia between 1 January and 7 October 1934, and from 4 March 1936 until his
execution for ideological and political reasons. The sculpture is the work
(1998) of the Spanish artist Francisco López Hernández (Madrid, 28 April 1932 - 8 January 2017).
Photo © Albert
Lázaro-Tinaut, 06.2012.
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