The Moncada Cemetery, which houses victims of the Republican rearguard, is integrated into the Network of Democratic Memory Spaces.

BarcelonaThe Montcada i Reixac cemetery will be integrated as a memorial site within the Network of Democratic Memorial Sites of Catalonia. Victims of the Republican rearguard violence were buried in this cemetery in the Vallès Occidental. Until the Generalitat (Catalan regional government) regained control of public order after the May 1937 events, the revolutionary committees killed priests, people considered right-wing, property owners, and foremen without trial. Sometimes it was for ideological reasons and sometimes personal ones, as revenge also occurred. The murders often took place in the Arrabassada region, and the victims were buried in the Montcada cemetery. Between July 19, 1936, and May 1937, some 1,200 victims were buried.

The cemetery signage will include five information points: a panoramic panel on the exterior wall providing an overview; A specific panel in the area surrounding the massacre; another in the mausoleum dedicated to the residents killed in the rearguard; and two plaques that will redefine the Carlist pantheon and the pantheon of the soldiers of the Artillery Mastery. At the moment, it is unknown what these plaques will say or what they will look like, because the information will not be made public until October, during the memorial series organized by the Montcada i Reixac City Council.

In October of last year, a technical study was presented documenting the pit.The report, commissioned by the Department of Justice and Democratic Quality through the Directorate General for Democratic Memory, was prepared by Oriol Dueñas, professor of contemporary history at the University of Barcelona.

The third time the mass grave has been investigated

The cemetery grave was initially located to the left of the entrance, but the accumulation of bodies led the municipal council to agree on December 18, 1936, to open a new mass grave. The study by the General Directorate of Democratic Memory named 164 of the 700 people who remain buried in the unmarked grave. This was the third time the Moncada burials were investigated. The Republican Generalitat, in the midst of the Civil War, had already begun a first exhumation.

Later, between April and July 1940, Franco's authorities resumed the exhumation process and recovered 748 bodies. The names of the identified individuals were referenced in the General Cause.