Mayor Ada Colau says contentious statues to remain as historians help city face its dark history
Christopher Columbus has stood on his column at the foot of Las Ramblas in Barcelona since 1888, his right arm outstretched towards the New World, although in fact it points to Constantine, Algeria.
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