Fabra is best known outside the province as the man responsible for Castellón airport, built at a cost of €150m, which has never seen a plane land or take off. “Do you like grandpa’s airport?” Fabra reportedly asked his grandchildren during the facility’s inauguration in 2011, fuelling accusations of megalomania from his political opponents.
The airport and the 20-tonne statue that sits at its entrance became symbols of the reckless regional spending that helped drive Spain into economic crisis. Fabra defended the project in 2011, telling reporters: “They say that we’re crazy for inaugurating an airport without planes. They don’t understand anything … this is an airport for people.”
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