Passeig de Lluís Companys () is a promenade in the

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and

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districts of

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, and can be seen as an extension of Passeig de Sant Joan. 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, Spain from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. Companys was a lawyer close to the labour movement and one of the mo ...

, who was executed in 1940. It starts in

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and ends in

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, on Carrer de Pujades.

Former names

The original

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

Buildings and monuments

, by Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas * 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 Catalan 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

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. Originally, these were:

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Roger of Lauria Roger of Lauria (''c''. 1245 – 17 January 1305), was a Calabrian knight who served the Crown of Aragon as admiral of the Aragonese navy during the War of the Sicilian Vespers. He was probably the most successful and talented naval tacticia ...

, Bernat Desclot, Rafael Casanova,

Ramon Berenguer I Ramon Berenguer I ( 1023 – 26 May 1076), called the Old (, ), 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 about 1023, he succeeded his fat ...

, Pere Albert, Antoni Viladomat 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 Ca ...

, made by Rafael Atché. 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 people, Catalan woman noted for her dealings with Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, President of Catalonia, i ...

, 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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