Montjuïc Castle

This guide to Montjuïc Castle in Barcelona centers on one October morning in 1940, when Lluís Companys, the exiled president of Catalonia, was brought to this fortress after Franco's forces captured him in France. It follows his swift trial inside these walls and the small ritual he insisted on before he faced the moat below. The guide also traces the castle's three centuries as a place of repression, from its construction in 1640 to the scratched prisoner tallies still visible in its lower dungeons.