This monument to victims of terrorism around the world was installed on a roundabout in the Valencian port city of Castellón in 2010. But in 2013, the 36-ton piece made out of iron, steel, and copper was blown over in a storm and lost the three doves that flew out of its three outstretched hands. Despite objections from the artist, who wanted it left as it was, the Popular Party City Hall began repairing it. The PP lost control in elections earlier this year and the new administration says it will carry out a cost analysis on who should pay for the repairs, writes Nuria Tirado.NURIA TIRADOPlaced in memory of Basque Socialist Party politician Fernando Múgica, who was murdered by ETA in 1996, this monument was vandalized in August 2011. City Hall, run at that time by the pro-Basque independence party Bildu, said it would repair it, but so far nothing has been done and it is slowly disappearing beneath undergrowth, says Mikel Ormazabal.javier hernándezThis monument erected in Bilbao’s Doña Casilda park in memory of terrorism victims has survived intact, although it could do with a clean.Fernando Domingo AldamaUnveiled in 2000, this memorial in Vitoria features the names of every person killed by ETA. The problem is that they can hardly be read. Located at the entrance to the Basque capital, it consists of a concrete mound covered with more than 900 tiles bearing the logo of COVITE, an organization representing a Basque association of terrorism victims, writes Pedro Gorospe.PEDRO GOROSPEConsuelo Ordóñez, the head of COVITE – the Collective of Basque Country Terrorism Victims – last week criticized the state of the monument to ETA victims in Vitoria. “We have spent years asking for them to look after the monument, to repaint the names and to keep an eye on the deterioration of some of the plaques [...] But they are not doing it,” she said.‘The Air of Liberty,’ a monument to the victims of terrorism in Palau-Solità i Plegamans, a small community in Barcelona province, was erected in 2009.Cristóbal CastroPlaced in 2002, this monument in Terrassa, Barcelona province, symbolizes a “window open to liberty and to a peaceful future,” says its creator Jesús Fructuoso.Cristóbal CastroA plaque dedicated to the memory of Ernest Lluch, a Catalan politician murdered by ETA in 2000. Inaugurated in 2001, the monument is located in the square bearing his name in Catalunya park, Sabadell, just outside Barcelona.Cristóbal CastroThis monument to the victims of terrorism is located in the Plaza de Baluarte in the center of the city. It was inaugurated in 2007 and cost €180,000, writes Javier Lorente Doria.JAVIER LORENTE DORIAThis plaque commemorating the victims of the ETA attack against a Civil Guard barracks in Vic, Barcelona province, was unveiled in 2009.Albert AlemanyLocated on Giorgeta Avenue in Valencia, this monument was erected to commemorate a metro accident in 2006 in which 43 passengers were killed. City Hall recently cleaned it up, but it will soon be replaced by another sculpture paid for by public subscription, writes Cristina Vázquez.Mónica Torres
