PalmThe Palma City Council, with votes in favor from the PP and Vox parties, has taken another step towards granting maximum protection to the Feixina monolith. The Urban Planning and Environment Committee debated this Friday the final approval of the General Urban Development Plan (PGOU) to include the monument in the city's Catalogue of Protected Buildings and Elements. The measure, which was initially approved by the Urban Planning Department last year, now faces its penultimate step before final validation. The final vote is scheduled for the next plenary session of the city council, to be held next week.
The spokesperson for MÁS per Palma, Neus Truyol, criticized the decision, denouncing it as "consolidating the presence of a fascist monument" that pays homage to the cruiser Balearics, linked to the massacre of the Disband From Málaga. "It's a serious decision because it glorifies violence against the civilian population and is part of a right-wing strategy to whitewash Francoism," he asserted.
Truyol went further and accused the PP and Vox parties of being "political heirs of Francoism." According to him, March 2026 will be remembered as the "month of the crusade against memory," referring to the repeal of the Democratic Memory Law, the censorship of a school event about Aurora Picornell, and the protection of the monument.
MÁS also criticizes the municipal government for not prioritizing the protection of urban heritage. "In Palma, there are more than 600 heritage sites awaiting protection and neighborhoods of great value such as Eixample, Son Espanyolet, and El Molinar, but the PP hasn't lifted a finger," they lamented. "It's indecent to let living heritage fall into ruin while protecting a symbol of the dictatorship," they added.
The 'Desbandá' and the cruiser 'Baleares'
The cruise Balearics He participated in the bombing of civilians fleeing Malaga in 1937, in an episode known as the Disband, one of the largest massacres of the Civil War. It is estimated that between 3,000 and 5,000 people – many of them women, children, and the elderly – died while trying to escape along the Almería road.
In 2010, with Aina Calvo as mayor, the City Council opted to keep the monument but remove its Francoist elements, with the aim of reinterpreting it as a space for remembrance and rejection of the war. However, the decision did not end the controversy. In 2016, Margalida Capellà wrote for this newspaper"The choice to contextualize the 2010 was, in my opinion, very well thought out but also risky and has not been understood by the affected citizens, specifically by the victims of Francoism, who continue to see it as a Francoist symbol."
In 2025, Cort revived the desire to definitively protect the monolitha process that could be completed next week. Meanwhile, MÁS per Mallorca has requested the inclusion of the Feixina monument and the monolith on the Maó Esplanade within the State catalogue of symbols and elements contrary to democratic memory, a proposal that, according to MP Vicenç Vidal, "in principle, is viewed favorably" by the Ministry of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory.