La Modelo II (Parcel Office), Barcelona (2017). Salvador Puig Antich was executed here on 2 March 1974. His execution by garrotte, an agonising medieval method (banned in 1978), began at 9.20 am and his death was certified by a medical officer 20 minutes later.Campo de la Bota II (Parque del Fórum), Barcelona (2017). Carme Claramunt Bonet, 41, was the first woman to be shot here, at dawn of 23 April 1939. In the following months ten more women were executed.
Campo de la Bota III (Parc del Fòrum), Barcelona (2017). Forty-four soldiers who had taken part in the military coup were shot here by the Republican authorities on 9-10 October 1936. The Campo de la Bota has disappeared as it was completely redeveloped and renamed for the construction of the Parc del Fòrum.
The Camp de la Bota disappeared due to the remodeling of the area for the 1992 Olympic Games and construction of the Parc del Fòrum, where the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures was held. Nothing in the park or in the triangular Fòrum building designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & De Meuron remembered of this execution site. Moreover, during the works a plaque in it’s memory had been removed.
