MÉMORIAL DE LA RETIRADA
The Memorial stands 2 kilometers from the town center of Cerbère, near the old customs post called Col des Balitres.
Erected to bear witness to the exile of Spanish republicans in 1939, “la retireda”: it describes the wait at the border post, political refugees in the cold and torn by hunger, before the French authorities decided to welcome them . Among them was the Spanish poet Antonio Machado who ended his days in Collioure.
The site is freely accessible all year round.
Erected to bear witness to the exile of Spanish republicans in 1939, “la retireda”: it describes the wait at the border post, political refugees in the cold and torn by hunger, before the French authorities decided to welcome them . Among them was the Spanish poet Antonio Machado who ended his days in Collioure.
The site is freely accessible all year round.
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