The Monument to Antonio López, formerly located in Plaça d’Antonio López (now Plaça d’Idrissa Diallo), was erected in 1884 in honor of banker and businessman Antonio López y López, Marquis of Comillas. The monument, designed by Josep Oriol Mestres, featured a statue by Venanci Vallmitjana and several decorative reliefs created by Catalan sculptors, depicting the companies founded by López. The original statue, destroyed in 1936, was replaced in 1944 by a new version by Frederic Marès. In 2018, the statue was removed by the Barcelona City Council due to López’s links to the slave trade, sparking a public debate between moral condemnation and acknowledgment of his role as a patron of Catalan art and culture.
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