The last session of the Republican Cortes Historical milestone · Figueres, Alt Empordà, Girona Image of Figueres, not of the place itself. Sixty-two of the four hundred and seventy-three deputies met by night, on 1 February 1939, in the stables of the castle of Sant Ferran; it was the last session of the Cortes of the Republic on Spanish soil before the exile. 1 de febrero de 1939 Photo: Alberto-g-rovi (CC BY-SA 3.0) What to see and do in Figueres