ROUTE OF EXILE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND ADULTS

Walter Benjamin, German philosopher of Jewish origin, arrived in Portbou in late September 1940, fleeing the German occupation of France. When he discovered that the Spanish authorities were going to return him to Vichy France and that, therefore, he would not be able to reach the United States, he committed suicide in the hotel where he was staying.

The death of this great European intellectual is one more example of the prominent role of the Pyrenees border during the Second World War, as well as the involvement of the Franco dictatorship with the Axis powers.

The route begins at MUME with a brief introduction to the time that covers the post-war Franco period and the world war and then continues to Portbou following the final steps of the German thinker. The activity is completed with a visit to the Exile Memorial of Coll dels Belitres, the cemetery and to the sculptural site of Dani Karavan and with an exercise of reading and discussion of texts by Walter Benjamin himself and other writers linked to the events of that time.

· Duration: 1 day / Price per adult / student: €12

· Groups up to 20 adults / students: €240 / group