National Day of Exile and Deportation 2017. Route sites of memory of the exile

Route: Sites of memory of the exile 

La Jonquera, Agullana, La Vajol, Algiers

Sunday, February 5, 2017,

National Day of Exile and Deportation

On Sunday 5 February 2017, the commemoration of the National Day of Exile and Deportation will take place, with the visit of different memory spaces in La Jonquera, Agullana, La Vajol and Algiers and the inauguration of a commemorative plaque in the Algiers beach. More information on the Democratic Memorial website.

A day trip to discover the most emblematic places on both sides of the border

The General Directorate of Institutional Relations and with the Parliament, together with the Democratic Memorial, the Exile Memorial Museum and the Memorial Consortium of the Battle of the Ebro Spaces, is preparing a commemorative day during which some emblematic places will be visited. of exile on both sides of the border line with northern Catalonia.

The day will take place on February 5 in memory of the day when the institutions and much of society - the most committed to republican ideas and Catalan institutions - had to seek refuge outside our borders. A moment that marked a before and an after in the history of Catalonia.

The places to visit will be La Jonquera, with the possibility of seeing the MUME, the Coll de Manrella (one of the border crossings perhaps less known), where you will have lunch, and the beach of Argelers de la Marenda, where a commemorative plaque.

The trip will be made by bus (free) that will leave from Barcelona, ​​Tarragona, Girona, Lleida, Manresa and Terres de l'Ebre. Later we will provide detailed information about the program and departure and arrival times.

In order to be able to predict how many people intend to participate, we would be grateful if you could let us know before January 20 if you would attend and how many people would accompany you by sending an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by calling telephone 933657794, from Monday to Friday, non-holidays, between 9 am and 2 pm.

February 5, the exile of Lluís Companys Since January 28, 1939, when the French authorities opened the border, thousands of people have fled the Francoist army, which arrived on February 10 and closed it again.

On February 5, the president of the Generalitat, Lluís Companys, crossed the border; the President of the Basque Government, José Antonio de Aguirre; the President of the Republic, Manuel Azaña, and the President of the Spanish Parliament, Diego Martínez Barrio. Pere Quart) or Mercè Rodoreda.

Today, exile and forced population displacement are part of everyday reality almost all over the world and very especially very close to us, in the Mediterranean. People fleeing the wars and conflicts in the Middle East and North and Central Africa are in the same situation as the hundreds of thousands of Spanish Republicans who crossed the border in 1939.