This is a monument constructed in memory of the German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjyamin(1882-1940)on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death in Port Bou,a Spanish town nerw the French border,where Bunjamin commited suicide and was buried.
It is composed of three parts : a steel tunnnel,33 metres in lemgth,which streches over a cliff near the public cemetery where Benjamin lies ; a discontinued fight of stairs cast in steel and in-stalled near an olive tree growing in a corner of the cemetery ; and a platform made of a combination of steel and cubes and installed in front of a fence behind the cemetery.
