A monument to Lluís Companys in Sant Adrià de Besòs

The Monument a Lluís Companys is a protected work of cultural heritage located in Sant Adrià de Besòs, Barcelona. It comprises a series of three walls of reinforced concrete, with variable height and horizontal grooves defining smooth strips 40 cm wide. The three walls are arranged in parallel and separated, leaving a 3-meter-wide passage between the walls. One of the walls has a perforated metal plate with a light point. The monument bears the inscription 'A Lluís Companys i Jover, President de la Generalitat de Catalunya 1934-1940'.

The monument symbolizes the imprisonment of Lluís Companys; with the light and the telephone, it represents the hope for a pardon that never arrived. Lluís Companys was killed on 15 October 1940. The park it stands in was created in 1988 and is named after the man who proclaimed the Catalan state on 6 October 1934.

In 1939, Lluís Companys began the path of exile. He was handed over to the Spanish State, tried, imprisoned, and died shot on 15 October 1940 at the castle of Montjuïc in Barcelona.

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