Cádiz city hall has removed a plaque from the outside of a property in Calle Isabel La Católica, which is where José María Pemán was born. The building currently houses the council’s Social Services department. The plaque showed a female figure holding an instrument on the right hand side and the profile of Pemán on the left. The accompanying inscription referred to the poet as a distinguished representative of the ‘Hispanic race’.
The councillor for Democratic Memory, Martín Vila, explains that Pemán actively supported the military coup and Francoism, and the plaque therefore contravenes Spain’s Historical Memory Law.
