Felipe VI has paid tribute to Rafael Altamira, humanist and jurist exiled by Franco in Mexico, where died in 1951. The act held in his hometown, El Campello, has had the presence of the family in the Alicante cemetery, where the Remains of the twice proposed to the Nobel Peace Prize already rest attending to the desire he expressed in life.
The king has wrapped Rafael Altamira’s family in the single pantheon that the City Council has erected in the municipal cemetery to rest the humanist, jurist, writer and pedagogue and his wife, Pilar Redondo, where two Laurel crowns have been placed .
Felipe VI has been received by the authorities and relatives of Altamira, and there he has stopped to speak with the granddaughter of the humanist Mari Luz Altamira. Next to her were the president of the Generalitat, Carlos Mazón; the Minister of Democratic Memory, Ángel Víctor Torres; the Government delegate in the Community, Pilar Bernabé, the president of the Provincial Council, Toni Pérez; and the host mayor, Juanjo Berenguer, as well as the Valencian express Ximo Puig (whose government was managed the repatriation of Altamira) and the executive’s sub -delegate, Juan Antonio Nieves, among many others.
Before addressing the pantheon and depositing the crowns there has been a solemn tribute act in a tent installed in the esplanade of access to the cemetery with the presence of 450 guests, in which the granddaughter, a biznieto, the mayor and the mayor have taken the floor, the mayor and The president of the Diputación, in addition to listening to several musical pieces of the Simfònica Solist Solista quartet.
During this act the monarch has not made any speech, but it has referred to Altamira in the letter he has made in the Book of Honor of the City of El Campello: “Today we honor a great and illustrious intellectual figure in an act of justice historical and repair, of concord and reconciliation. Finally, Don Rafael and Doña Pilar rest where he always wanted, in Campello. ”
The most complete Spanish intellectual for the BBC
All who has intervened have highlighted from Altamira (Alicante, 1866-City of Mexico, 1951), whom the BBC defined by giving the news of his death as “the most complete Spanish intellectual of his time”, his many merits as a humanist In the broadest sense of the word, among them that in 1921 he was one of the ten judges appointed for the precedent of the International Court of Justice of The Hague and that was twice proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize, in 1933 and 1951 .
Excited, the granddaughter Mari Luz Altamira has affirmed that “today, 74 after his death, the homeland that one day condemned him to exile opens his arms with respect and dignity in an act of historical justice that reflects the reconciliation of a country with his most illustrious children. ”
He recalled that, as a child, he met him when his grandfather already lived in Bayonne (France) during exile and with affection he commented that he was struck by “his majestic beard, symbol of his wisdom”, and that he told him to be He removed her at night and stuck her again for the day, which for her is a symbol of a man who maintained her principles and ideas despite the adversities.
The Biznieto Ignacio Ramos Altamira has thanked the efforts for the repatriation of the remains of his great -grandfather, who “put the interest of the Spaniards to their own ideology” and, addressing Felipe VI, recalled that Rafael Altamira was “a rausid liberal Republican to which her grandfather, Alfonso XIII, listened to the recovery of the link with the Ibero -American people. ”
Start of ‘Altamira’ year
The mayor of El Campello, Juanjo Berenguer, has highlighted the “difficult life” of Altamira and his wife for exile, and has discounted that his spirit “never broke down” and where he was forced to live on one side and another of the Atlantic “continued to promote the values of justice and freedom” leaving a legacy “that has transcended borders and generations.”
“Today we host his return to the home as he deserves,” the mayor has congratulated, after a long process of bureaucratic procedures for exhumation, on December 7, and the transfer from the Spanish pantheon in the cemetery of Mexico City to Spain to Spain .
The mayor has announced that he wants to use this act as a “start” of a future project “ambitious to value all levels and work by Rafael Altamira” and has taken advantage of the presence of those responsible for all administrations to request His collaboration in what he has baptized as ‘Altamira Year’.
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