Passages Memorial, Chemin Walter Benjamin, Portbou
Passages, or Walter Benjamin Memorial, inaugurated 1994, by Dani Karavan, featuring a corten steel entrance leading to steps down to the sea, commemorating the exiled, on the 13km Chemin Walter Benjamin, opened 2007, a footpath following the route taken by the German philosopher on 24th September 1940, from Banyuls to Portbou in Spain, while fleeing Nazism, Portbou, Catalonia, Spain. Benjamin was led by Resistance member Lisa Fittko to Portbou on the Spanish border, where he committed suicide for fear of being apprehended by Nazis. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
50620394
Media ID
50620394
Size
8268px x 5836px
(19.6MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
Date
2025
