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• “Even if we lose,” Companys had said, “Catalonia will win because we need martyrs who will tomorrow assure definitive victory.”

• Anarchists, fascists and Republicans have all met their maker within these walls, most famously Lluis Companys, the President of Catalunya who was executed here by firing squad in 1940.

• Overcoming conservative Republican opposition to limited home rule under the Generalitat, which was controlled by the Catalan left (Esquerra) under Lluis Companys, Azaña was able to settle the Catalan question—perhaps his greatest achievement.

• The anniversary of Companys’ death is traditionally an emotional highpoint of the Catalan nationalists’ year, beginning with torchlit overnight marches to the site of his execution in Barcelona’s Montjuic Park and culminating with the laying of wreaths at his nearby tomb.

• Speaking at the annual homage to Catalan nationalist hero Lluis Companys, executed on General Franco’s orders in 1940, Mr Puigdemont made a somewhat vague appeal to “dignity and courage and our duty to remember, as a people that will always search for the freedom of all its citizens”.

• Covering more than 400 hectares, it includes the Calatrava communications tower, the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium, the Palau Sant Jordi sports hall, the Picornell swimming pools, the head office of the Catalan Institute for Physical Education, as well as the Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sports Museum, which opened in 2007.