Travel Reference
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• Return to Carrer del Bisbe and turn left. After a few steps you reach a small square with a
bronze statue ensemble.
Martyrs Statue:
Five Barcelona patriots calmly receive their last rites before being
garroted (strangled) for resisting Napoleon's 1809 invasion of Spain. They'd been outraged
by French atrocities in Madrid (depicted in Goya's
Third of May
painting in Madrid's Prado
Museum).Theplaquemarkingtheirmortalremainssaysthesemartyrstoindependencegave
their lives
“por Dios, por la Patria, y por el Rey”
—for God, country, and king.
