2018/12/25

On this day died Francesc Macià, 122nd President of Catalonia

Francesc Macià i Llussà was the first President of the restored Generalitat de Catalunya and held office from 1932 until his death in 1933. Over 1,000,000 attended to the Macià's funeral and flowers filed 120 automobiles at burieal of President of the Catalan Government as the New York Times explained.

Born in September 1859, Macià grew up in Vilanova i la Geltrú (a medium sized town approximately 50 kilometres south of Barcelona). After a spell in the Spanish army, he fought for Catalan independence and formed the political party Estat Català which later merged with other pro-independence groups to form Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya (Republican Left Wing of Catalonia).







Portrait of Francesc Macia

About the Artist

In 1931 the ERC won local elections and proclaimed the Catalan Republic. Three days later the Catalan Republic was restructured as the Generalitat de Catalunya (Government of the autonomous Catalonia) with Francesc Macia as president and the statute was drawn up.

Monument to Francesc Macià

This unusual monument is the work of Josep Maria Soberachs and was inaugerated in 1991. The mostly abstract statue consists of a bronze bust of Macià in front of an inverted concrete staircase. The unfinished staircase symbolises the ongoing history of Catalonia which is being constructed day-by-day.

Josep Maria Soberachs was born in Barcelona in 1927. He was a multidisciplinary artist, painter, sculptor, illustrator and art critic whose best known works include the Passion Façade of the Sagrada Familia Basilica.



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