Plaça d'Europa
The Plaça d'Europa ( Catalan "Europaplatz") was opened on Europe Day 1998. It is located on the television tower of Montjuïc on the Olympic site in Barcelona .
The architects Frederic Correa i Ruiz and Alfons Milà i Sagnier designed a semicircular frieze that frames a circular fountain based on an idea by the former mayor of Barcelona, Pasqual Maragall . The design of the letters of the frieze was done by Enric Satué . On the far left of the frieze, the following words from the European Unification Treaty Title 1, Article A can be read in Catalan : “An ever closer union of the peoples of Europe, in which decisions are made as closely as possible to the citizen.” This is followed by the frieze On the right, in alphabetical order, the names of European politicians who, in the opinion of the initiators, played an outstanding role in the unification of Europe:
- Konrad Adenauer
- Enric Adroher
- Willy Brandt
- Pau Casals
- Winston Churchill
- Alcide de Gasperi
- Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau
- John Maynard Keynes
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Salvador de Madariaga
- Gregorio Marañón
- François Mitterrand
- Jean Monnet
- José Ortega y Gasset
- Carles Pi i Sunyer
- Denis de Rougemont
- Robert Schuman
- Paul-Henri Spaak
- Altiero Spinelli
- Josep Tarradellas
- Antón Cañellas
- Joan Reventós i Carner
- Antoni Gutiérrez
- Umberto Serafini
- Josep Trueta
Plaça d'Europa
Plaça d'Europa with the television tower
Inscription on Plaça d'Europa
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ajuntament de Barcelona: Barcelona commemora el Dia d'Europa
- ↑ Treaty on European Union, Article 1 . In: Official Journal of the European Union . C, Volume 191, July 29, 1992, p. 4.
- ↑ Generalitat de Catalunya: Se celebra a Barcelona el Dia d'Europa amb el desplegament d'una bandera europea a la Pedrera i un homenatge a la Plaça d'Europa ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link became automatic marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 41 ° 21 ′ 53 " N , 2 ° 8 ′ 56" E