Francesc Layret was a labor lawyer from Barcelona (1880-1920) who was tragically assassinated by hitmen from the Sindicato Libre - linked to the employers - in 1920. In 1934, the first stone of a monument in his memory was laid in the plaza de Goya, near the Ronda de San Antonio and close to the Plaza de la Universidad. The monument was funded through a popular subscription.
Under the new Francoist authorities in 1939, the monument, along with other politically charged or Catalanist monuments such as the Monument to the Republic, the Monument to Doctor Robert, or A Rafael Casanova, was dismantled. The author of the monument received many commissions from the new authorities in the post-war period and was responsible for rebuilding numerous monuments destroyed by antifascist militias.
The monument was kept in a municipal warehouse until the arrival of democracy, when it was restored in its original location and re-inaugurated in 1977.
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Written by Nik Frost
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