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"Passatges" Memorial, a tribute to Walter Benjamin

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"Passatges" Memorial, a tribute to Walter Benjamin

Monument · Portbou, Alt Empordà, Girona

"Passatges" Memorial, a tribute to Walter Benjamin

A 1994 sculpture-installation by artist Dani Karavan, a passageway cut into the rock of Portbou cemetery in memory of philosopher Walter Benjamin, who died in the village in 1940.

Photo: Nostrix (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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