Just as it is always a strategic point for the defense of the city, it has been to keep it under control, along with the fortress at the other end of the city. In 1843 the city was bombed from the castle to put an end to the jamancia rebellion, which destroyed or damaged 460 buildings.The castle has also been used numerous times as a prison for political prisoners until the times of the Franco dictatorship. and the place where they were later shot and buried in the cemetery on the south-west side of the mountain. During the 1940th and XNUMXth centuries, several anarchists were shot (among them the pedagogue Francisco Ferrer y Guardia) and in XNUMX Lluís Companys, president of the Generalitat of Catalonia. You have all the information in: «Montjuic Pavilion in Barcelona«.
You have all the information in: "Montjuic Pavilion in Barcelona".