Monument

Les Quatre Columnes

📍 Sants-Montjuïc, Barcelona🏗 2010-01-01🖊 Josep Puig i Cadafalch🏛 public art in Barcelona

In Les Quatre Columnes, four Ionic columns designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch stood on Montjuïc, the hill that would later host the Magic Fountain. Erected in 1919, they were meant to become a central icon of Catalanism: the columns symbolized the four stripes of the Catalan senyera, visually tying architecture to political identity. That message had consequences. In 1928, during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, the columns were demolished as part of a systematic removal of public Catalanist symbols—actions intended to keep such emblems from being noticed ahead of the 1929 Universal Exposition on Montjuïc. For more than eight decades, the site held no original columns. Restoration finally came in December 2010, eighty-two years after their destruction, following a long campaign by Catalan civic and cultural bodies that pushed for their return. …
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