Just five minutes walk from Platja de Portbou beach, in the south, we find, on a hill with great views, the memorial created in 1994 to the great Jewish German philosopher Walter Benjamin, who died in 1940 in Portbou after being pursued by the Gestapo. The monument consists of a metal tunnel designed by Israeli artist Dani Karavan, who named it "Passages". At the end of the tunnel there is a large glass overlooking the bay of Portbou. Next to it is the village cemetery, where you'll find a symbolic tomb dedicated to Walter Benjamin: the body is not really inside.
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Walter Benjamin tomb memorial, Portbou, Costa Brava
Memorial Walter Benjamin, por Dani Karavan, Portbou
Panoràmica de Portbou, cerca del Memorial Walter Benjamin
Walter Benjamin (Berlin 1892, Portbou 1940)
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