Passeig de Lluís Companys () is a promenade in the

Ciutat Vella Ciutat Vella (, meaning in English "Old City") is a district of Barcelona, numbered District 1. The name means "old city" in Catalan and refers to the oldest neighborhoods in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. ''Ciutat Vella'' is nestle ...

and

Eixample The Eixample (; ) is a district of Barcelona between the old city (Ciutat Vella) and what were once surrounding small towns (Sants, Gràcia, Sant Andreu, etc.), constructed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Its population was 262,000 at t ...

districts of

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, and can be seen as an extension of

Passeig de Sant Joan Passeig de Sant Joan () is a major avenue in the Eixample and Gràcia districts of Barcelona. It was named after an older street carrying this name, also known as Passeig Nou, built in 1795 around the glacis of the Ciutadella fortress. It starts ...

. It was named after

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Lluís Companys Lluís Companys i Jover (; 21 June 1882 – 15 October 1940) was a Catalan politician who served as president of Catalonia from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. Companys was a lawyer close to labour movement and one of the most prominent l ...

, who was executed in 1940. It starts in

Arc de Triomf The Arc de Triomf () is a triumphal arch in the city of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It was built by architect Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas as the main access gate for the 1888 Barcelona World Fair. The arch crosses over the wide central promenad ...

and ends in

Parc de la Ciutadella The (; "Citadel Park") is a park on the northeastern edge of Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. For decades following its creation in the mid-19th century, this park was the city's only green space. The grounds include the city zoo (on ...

, on

Carrer de Pujades Carrer de Pujades and Passeig de Pujades, before 1900 rendered Pujadas, are respectively a street and a promenade in the Poblenou and Sant Martí de Provençals areas of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). It's named after the poet and historian Jero ...

Former names

The original Cerdà plan originally listed it as Núm. 35, and was later renamed to Salón de Víctor Pradera, Fermín Galán and Salón de San Juan, or Saló de Sant Joan in

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. In 1979 the current name was approved by the city council.

Buildings and monuments

, by

Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas (; Barcelona, Spain 1848–1910) was a Spanish architect and artist who formed part of the '' Modernista'' movement. He studied architecture in Madrid and qualified in 1873. He travelled with Lluís Domènech i Mont ...

* Tribunal Superior de Justícia de Catalunya, a monumental building in a highly eclectic style, by

Enric Sagnier Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia (; 1858 in Barcelona – 1931) was a Spanish architect. Although now not as well known as his contemporaries Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch, he was responsible for a numbe ...

and Josep Domènech Estapà.

''Personatges del Saló de Sant Joan''

In 1883, the Barcelona city council approved the inauguration of eight sculptures commemorating eight important men in the

history of Catalonia Catalonia was first settled during the Middle Palaeolithic era. Like the rest of the Mediterranean side of the Iberian Peninsula, the area was occupied by the Iberians and several Greek colonies were established on the coast before the Roman c ...

. Originally, these were:

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Roger of Lauria Roger of Lauria (''c''. 1245 – 17 January 1305) was a Neapolitan admiral in Aragonese service, who was the commander of the fleet of the Crown of Aragon during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talent ...

, Bernat Desclot,

Rafael Casanova Rafael Casanova i Comes (; 1660 – 2 May 1743) was a Catalan jurist and supporter of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor as a claimant to the Crown of Spain during the War of the Spanish succession. He became mayor of Barcelona and commander in chief o ...

Ramon Berenguer I Ramon Berenguer I (1023–1076), called the Old ( ca, el Vell, french: le Vieux), was Count of Barcelona in 1035–1076. He promulgated the earliest versions of a written code of Catalan law, the Usages of Barcelona. Born in 1024, he succee ...

, Pere Albert,

Antoni Viladomat Antoni Viladomat i Manalt (20 March 1678, Barcelona - 22 January 1755, Barcelona) was a Catalan painter in the Baroque style. Biography His father was a gilder. He appears to have taken his first formal art lessons in the workshop of Pasqual ...

and Jaume Fabre. They were inaugurated in 1888 for the Barcelona Universal Exposition. Casanova's monument was moved to Ronda Sant Pere in 1917 and replaced by a new one dedicated to

Pau Claris Pau Claris i Casademunt (; 1 January 1586 – 27 February 1641) was a Catalan lawyer, clergyman and 94th President of the Deputation of the General of Catalonia at the beginning of the Catalan Revolt. On 16 January 1641 he proclaimed the Cata ...

, made by

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. However, all but the Roger de Llúria and Viladomat statues were removed in 1937, and the Pau Claris monument, concealed in a warehouse for decades, was reinaugurated in 1977.

Other sculptures

* Lluís Companys monument (1998) by Francisco López Hernández. Has the inscription ''Catalonia and freedom are the same thing: where freedom lives, there my homeland is.'' A young girl,

Conxita Julià Conxita Julià i Farrés (; 11 June 1920 – 9 January 2019), also known as Conxita de Carrasco, was a Catalan woman noted for her dealings with Lluís Companys, President of Catalonia, in the 1930s, and for her poetry. Julià died in January 20 ...

, friend of Companys, poet later on, is the main subject of the sculpture. * Francesc Rius i Taulet monument (1901) by Manuel Fuxà * Pere Vila Codina monument (1932) by Josep Dunyach.

Transport

Metro

( L1)

Bus

*Line 39 Barceloneta - Horta *Line 40 Port Vell - Trinitat Vella *Line 41 Pl. Francesc Macià - Diagonal Mar *Line 42 Pl. Catalunya - Santa Coloma *Line 51 Pla de Palau - Ciutat Meridiana *Line 141 Av. Mistral - Barri del Besòs *Line B25 Barcelona (Rda. Sant Pere) - Badalona (B. Pomar)

Gallery

Image:S7001831.JPG, Detail of one of the towers of the Tribunal Superior de Justícia de Catalunya. Image:MonumentAPauClaris.jpg,

monument. Image:Passeig de Lluís Companys.JPG, General view.

External links

Monuments in Passeig de Lluís Companys
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