Memorial to Walter Benjamin

This is the memorial constructed in honor of Walter Benjamin, a thinker of particular importance to architects, in Port Bou, Spain. It is believed he committed suicide (near this site) rather than continue dealing with the ongoing threat of his extermination.

Inscription on the glass panel at Walter Benjamin's memorial in Portbou. It is a quotation of his:

IT IS MORE ARDUOUS TO HONOUR THE MEMORY OF THE NAMELESS THAN THAT OF THE RENOWNED. HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION IS DEVOTED TO THE MEMORY OF THE NAMELESS.