Heute morgen war es soweit. Mitten in Barcelona at the intersection of the dominant diagonal streets and Passeig de Gracia , outside the door of the main branch of Deutsche Bank and under the eyes of the German Consulate General was the statue of the goddess of victory of Franco's time
from their base. More precisely: they did not fall, but was lifted by a crane from the base. For the 200 Republicans applauding this present and this was but one case the same. For them it was proof that the Franco-fascism has disappeared visually from their city.
The remote statue, which stands next to a large obelisk, is a dressed in a tunic woman who lifts her right hand in a bay leaf and in the left the figure of a small winged goddess of victory holds. It is the work of sculptor Frederic Marès
. Until April 1936 stood at this intersection on the raised part of the obelisk, which has always dominated the intersection, a figure that represented the English Republic and at the base of the obelisk was a medal in honor of
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