Mayor Ada Colau says contentious statues to remain as historians help city face its dark history
Christopher Columbus has stood on his column at the foot of Las Ramblas in Barcelona since 1888, his right arm outstretched towards the New World, although in fact it points to Constantine, Algeria.
And there he’s likely to stay after the mayor, Ada Colau, rejected calls to pull down the city’s most iconic statue. In so doing, Colau is keeping faith with the idea that it’s better for the city to face up to it past than to deny it.
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