It has been, according to the artist Francesc Abad, a "long and hard" struggle, but finally this Monday the Forest of footprints, with numerous representatives of Catalan and Spanish institutions, relatives of victims of the dictatorship, and the Quartet Brossa. The art installation, in Sant Adrià de Besòs, commemorates the 1,706 people shot by Franco's regime. Made up of 1,686 iron tubes arranged in 36 rows, it is inspired by the phrase written by the philosopher Walter Benjamin, who had to leave Germany in 1933, with the rise of Hitler, and died in a hotel room in Portbou on September 26, 1940. For this reason, it has the shape of a brush with the bristles pointing upwards. The installation's neighbors are students from the UPC campus, the Mina neighborhood, the Besòs Thermal Power Plant, and the Ronda Litoral.