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Two blocks of the Wall under glass on a promenade in a Galician town, donated to the council by the uncle of an emigrant who brought them from Germany.
Two blocks of the Wall stand in a glass case on the Paseo da Xunqueira in Redondela, in front of the Multiusos hall. They are about two metres long and one wide each. Atlántico, the Vigo daily, reported in April 2011 that Jacinto Suárez had given them to the council; his nephew Manuel Figueroa, an emigrant, had acquired them in Germany in the early 1990s. For fifteen years they had been fixed, little noticed, to a pillar of the old viaduct at the Subida á Estación. The local artist Jesús Cameselle cleaned them, taking off rust and oxidation, and methacrylate panels now protect them from weather and vandals.
Metropolitano.gal in November 2019 and El Debate in May 2025 tell the same story, with the glass case dated to early 2011. The position this listing was imported with fell in the province of León, some 160 kilometres from Redondela; the position here is the town's.
How did it get here?
Brought from Germany in the early 1990s by the emigrant Manuel A. Figueroa and given to the town council by his uncle, Jacinto Suárez.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #348.
Esquirlas del muro que se cayó a pedazos — Atlántico ↗
5 April 2011: Redondela's two blocks of the Wall, given to the council by Jacinto Suárez, whose nephew Manuel Figueroa acquired them in Germany; fifteen years attached to the pillars of the old viaduct; cleaned by Jesús Cameselle and now behind methacrylate panels near the Multiusos at A Xunqueira.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Los restos del muro de Berlín se pueden ver en Redondela — Metropolitano.gal ↗
9 November 2019: two blocks of about two metres by one, in a glass case since early 2011 on the Paseo da Xunqueira before the Multiusos; brought by the emigrant Manuel A. Figueroa and donated to the council by his uncle Jacinto Suárez; previously over fifteen years at a pillar of the old viaduct on the Subida á Estación.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
La curiosa historia de cómo dos bloques del Muro de Berlín llegaron a Redondela — El Debate ↗
5 May 2025: the two blocks are in a glass case on the Paseo da Xunqueira facing the Multiusos; Manuel A. Figueroa brought them from Germany and his uncle Jacinto Suárez gave them to the council to be shown as testimony to the end of the Cold War.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 348
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