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Barcelona's emblematic statue of Christopher Columbus pointing out to sea could be toppled under a proposal from far-Left councillors, who say it is an inappropriate celebration of Spain’s colonial legacy. 
  
 The CUP party group of councillors in Barcelona has proposed replacing the statue of the Italian explorer who claimed the discovery of the Americas with a symbol of “American resistance against imperialism, oppression and indigenous segregation”. 
  
 As well as knocking Columbus himself from the top of his ornate pillar at the start of Barcelona’s La Rambla boulevard, the CUP demands the removal of “all the ornaments at the base of the column which glorify the conquest of America”. ||||| Spain Call to topple Christopher Columbus statue from its Barcelona perch Leftwing councillors say city should not be celebrating his colonial legacy and call for memorial reflecting ‘American resistance to imperialism’ The monument has been part of Barcelona’s skyline since 1888. Photograph: Artem Dunaev/Getty Images/EyeEm 
  
 A group of anti-capitalist councillors in Barcelona are hoping to topple the statue of Christopher Columbus that has stood at the foot of La Rambla for more than a century, arguing that the city should not be celebrating the explorer’s colonial legacy. 
  
 The 197ft (60-metre) high memorial, topped with a bronze statue of the Genoan pointing out to sea, has been part of Barcelona’s skyline since 1888. Its base pays homage to Columbus’s colleagues and his patrons, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. 
  
 In proposals to be submitted to the city council on Friday, the three CUP Capgirem councillors call for the statue to be taken down along with “all the decorations at the base of the column that glorify the conquest of America and its ‘museumification’ through historical interpretation”. 
  
  
  
 Far more fitting, they say, would be a memorial reflecting “American resistance to imperialism, oppression and indigenous and African-American segregation”. 
  
 The image of Columbus is not the only monument on their hitlist: the councillors also want the statue of the merchant and slave trader Antonio López y López, Marquis of Comillas, removed from its plinth outside the post office building. In its place, the trio propose a monument to commemorate the victims of the slave trade. 
  
 Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Columbus monument at the foot of La Rambla. Photograph: Nikada/Getty Images 
  
 Their suggestions, however, go well beyond statuary. As well as removing Spanish flags from municipal buildings in Barcelona, they would also like to see 12 October – the national holiday on which Spain celebrates Columbus’s landfall in the Americas – turned into an ordinary working day. 
  
 They say the date not only marks “an intolerable act of colonialism and imperialism”, but also “the genocide of the indigenous American population by colonist-conquistadors, and an act of aggressive Spanish nationalism against all the peoples that it oppresses and has oppressed”. 
  
 Last is a demand for the council to ban fascist events in the city. 
  
  
  
 The notion of celebrating 12 October is increasingly distasteful to some in Spain, especially those on the left. 
  
  
  
 Last year, Barcelona’s mayor, Ada Colau, said the country should not be marking “a genocide” with an €800,000 (£700,000) military parade, while José María González, the Podemos-backed mayor of the southern city of Cádiz, tweeted: “We never discovered America; we massacred and suppressed a continent and its cultures in the name of God.” 
  
  
  
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Just a couple of years after the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor, a statue of Christopher Columbus was erected to grace Barcelona's skyline—and while the former represents freedom and friendship, local council members say the latter should be torn down for symbolizing the worst of colonialism, reports the Guardian. The officials are formally requesting that the nearly 200-foot bronze figure, which went up in 1888, be dismantled, as well as all the adornments at the base of the column—including effigies of Columbus' sponsors, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, per the Telegraph—that "glorify the conquest of America and its 'museumification' through historical interpretation." Instead, the far-left officials say, a better tribute would be some kind of structure signifying "American resistance to imperialism, oppression, and indigenous and African-American segregation." That's not all the CUP Capgirem members are looking to eliminate. Also on the hit list: a statue of a slave trader outside Barcelona's post office, the Spanish flags that adorn municipal buildings, and Columbus Day celebrations on Oct. 12. Other Spanish officials have voiced displeasure at the holiday in the past, with the mayor of the port city of Cadiz tweeting last year, "We never discovered America; we massacred and suppressed a continent and its cultures in the name of God." The request has been met with some scorn by other parties, with one local leader sniffing, "Next thing you know, the CUP will ask for a statue of Kim Jong Un pointing at Ithaca." Meanwhile, Barcelona's deputy mayor said Tuesday that taking down the Columbus statue "is not part of the changes we currently have planned." (A stolen Columbus letter was found in a US institution.)