Liceu bombing

Newspaper illustration of the bombing

The Liceu bombing attack, in which an anarchist threw two bombs from the balcony of Barcelona's Liceu opera house, killed 20 people on November 7, 1893.

The bombing was in response to the 1893 execution of Paulí Pallàs following his assassination attempt on Catalonia Captain General Arsenio Martínez Campos. Santiago Salvador, Pallàs's friend, was arrested in January 1894. In reaction to the bombing, Valeriano Weyler was installed with the mandate of hunting anarchists and declared martial law. Hundreds of laborers were arrested and several confessed to the Liceu bombing after being tortured. Even after Salvador's arrest, laborers remained imprisoned and six were executed.

See also

• Montjuïc trial

Further reading

• Bosque Maurel, Joaquín (2002). "Pío Baroja y "su" Madrid: La lucha por la vida". Anales de Geografía de la Universidad Complutense: 155–187. ISSN 0211-9803.
• Fontova, Rosario (2010). La Model de Barcelona. Històries de la presó (PDF). Generalitat de Cataluña. Departamento de Justicia. ISBN 978-84-393-8362-8.
• McDonogh, Gary Wray (2014). "The Family and the City: Power and the Creation of Cultural Imagery". Good Families of Barcelona: A Social History of Power in the Industrial Era. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-5823-1. OCLC 949946633.
• Permanyer, Lluís (November 6, 1990). "Un día en la memoria de Barcelona". Revista de la Vanguardia: 2–3.
• Torrente, Ramón (February 1, 1994). "La historia negra del Gran Teatro del Liceo" (PDF). El Norte de Castilla.