Commemoration of the Republican Exile (Presentation documentary "Teresa Rebull")

La Jonquera, Agullana, La Vajol, Algiers

Sunday, February 5, 2017,

National Day of Exile and Deportation

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

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

The Directorate-General for Institutional Relations and Parliament, in collaboration with the Democratic Memorial, the Museum of Exile and the Battle of the Ebro Memorial Consortium, is preparing a memorial day during which some iconic sites will be visited. . of exile on both sides of the border with northern Catalonia.

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

Places to visit will be La Jonquera, with the opportunity to see the MUME, the Coll de Manrella (one of the border posts perhaps less known), where you will have lunch, and the beach of Argelers de la Marenda, where a commemorative plaque.

The trip will be by bus (free) 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 inform us before January 20 of your presence and the number of people who 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 933657794, Monday through Friday, holidays, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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.

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, also on this date, several intellectuals and artists left Catalonia, such as Pompeu Fabra, Pau Vila, Pere Bosch and Gimpera, Joan Oliver (Pere Quart) or Mercè Rodoreda.

Today, exile and forced population displacement are part of the daily reality almost everywhere in the world and very particularly very close to us, in the Mediterranean. People fleeing 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.