Parque de la Memoria of Sartaguda, Memorial park in Sartaguda, Spain
The Parque de la Memoria is a 6,000 m² memorial park in Sartaguda, Navarre, opened in 2008. A path from the entrance passes through José Ramón Anda's monumental gate Atariaren beasarkada (Gate of the Embrace) to a circular plaza. There, a 7-metre-long, 2.5-metre-high wall bears the 3,444 names of victims on both faces, alongside Néstor Basterrechea's sculpture Como una hoz atávica y mortal and the Rincón de los Escritores with iron panels.
The park was opened in 2008 and commemorates citizens from Navarre who died following the 1936 military uprising and subsequent political repression. It documents the long-term impact of violence on the local population.
The 'txoko de los escritores' (writers' corner) holds iron panels engraved with texts in Basque and Spanish by Pablo Antoñana, Bernardo Atxaga, Castillo Suárez, Jokin Muñoz, Montxo Armendáriz and José María Jimeno Jurío. The panels address the brutality of the Civil War, and some texts appear on a small panel.
The 6,000 m² grounds are enclosed by a fence, with a single entrance where an explanatory panel introduces the monument. From there a path leads past José Ramón Anda's arch to the circular plaza; short trails branch off to three small rest areas. The wall of names is read on both faces, and the writers' corner panels are in Basque and Spanish.
The wall lists 3,444 names, but 3,431 were engraved at the 2008 opening; 24 more were added a year later after a new tribute. The figures cover 2,700 people shot in their own villages, 567 dead at the San Cristóbal fortress, and Navarrese killed at Mauthausen and in forced labour.
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