Word: montjuich
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...exhibition of Romanesque art ever held. Sponsored by the Council of Europe, an organization dedicated to the cause of European unity, the exhibition includes works from nearly every European country this side of the Iron Curtain. The treasures were so many that Spain divided them between the Palace of Montjuich in Barcelona and its own proudest Romanesque monument, the great Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela...
...Franco had undertaken to keep war criminals out of Spain, was in no mood to exasperate the Allies. Instead of going to the swanky Ritz Hotel, where a suite once occupied by the Duke of Windsor and Heinrich Himmler had been reserved for him, Laval was hustled into forbidding Montjuich, the stone fortress which looms over Barcelona. Into a massive cell (whose rigors were later softened by a spring bed and furniture from the Ritz) moved the unwelcome Frenchman. At his request a radio was installed. The first news he heard was a "Voice of America" program in French...
Barcelona, conquered month ago by the Rebel Armies, was last week given its first look since the beginning of the war at the No. 1 Rebel, Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Early one morning a 21-gun salute roared out from Montjuich fortress as Generalissimo Franco, accompanied by his Moorish guard, motored into the centre of the city. Taking his place on a stand on Barcelona's large and battered Via Diagonal, now appropriately renamed Avenida del Caudillo (Avenue of the Chief) for El Caudillo Franco, the Generalissimo reviewed units of the seven Army corps that had taken part...
When General Juan Yague's troops reached the 600-foot-high hill of Montjuich commanding Barcelona's harbor they saw a white flag flying from the fortress. When General Garcia Valino's soldiers climbed the summit of Tibidabo, on the west, and looked down upon the city gleaming in brilliant sunshine, they saw white sheets, towels and Rebel red & gold bunting flying from windows and housetops...
...western force were to take the mountains that lie immediately above and behind Barcelona, and if the southern column were to take the fortress of Montjuich. which lies on a promontory that commands Barcelona from the sea side, the city had small chance of holding out. Madrid has held out for two and a half years. But Madrid stands like a fort on a plain. Barcelona lies defenseless...