Castell de Montjuïc

On different occasions during the Spanish Civil War, both Nationalists and Republicans were executed at the Castell de Montjuïc castle, each at the time when the site was held by their opponents.
The Catalan nationalist leader Lluís Companys i Jover was also executed there in 1940, having been extradited to the Franco government by the Nazis.

At the Castell de Montjuïc, there are still two guns from the time of the Spanish Civil War.

At the end of the Second World War, the Vichy Ministers Maurice Gabolde and Abel Bonnard were temporarily imprisoned in this castle. They were on the run when he was arrested.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries & Kaj Metz
• Photos: Willem Visser (1, 2, 3, 4), Lennard Bolijn (5)