The statue of Columbus in Barcelona will continue to point to America – W Radio

Madrid, 30 sep (EFE).- The statue of Christopher Columbus that since 1888 is installed in the port of Barcelona will continue to point to America, after which all groups of the city Council of the city have rejected today the withdrawal proposal to training anti-capitalist CUP.

This coalition anti-establishment had raised the replacement of the statue of Columbus at the end of the famous avenue of la Rambla, to place a work an allegory of the resistance of indigenous peoples and the slaves.

The statue of Columbus, who came to America on October 12, 1492, is one of the controversies that accompany it in recent months, some symbols spaniards in the streets of Barcelona and some of its institutions.

So, the room where it is celebrated on the full city Council will no longer be called the Queen Regent, in reference to the portrait of queen María Cristina of Bourbon, to be called the “Hall of Carles Pi i Sunyer”, in honor of the first mayor elected by universal suffrage male and female of the city.

The first lieutenant of mayor, Gerardo Pisarello, has argued that, in order to put in evidence the “colonial dimension” of the monument to Columbus, “does not make missing out” and has explained that, this fall, the city Council has scheduled two conferences of experts and studies señalizarlo and explain their sculptures.

The full city Council of Barcelona has rejected the proposal of the CUP to remove this statue and that of the entrepreneur Antonio López, linked to the traffic of slaves.

The CUP was also proposed to withdraw the Spanish flags and symbols monarchists there are in the municipal offices, to declare working the 12 of October and to ask the Government of the region of Catalonia, which prohibit the concentrations fascists.

In July of 2015, the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, who rules at the helm of a left-wing coalition, decided to remove the bust of king Juan Carlos I (1975-2014) of the plenary hall, with the argument that he was not the head of the Spanish State and because they already had too much symbology within the monarchy at the city hall. EFE