Another tragic Barcelona anniversary today. 77 years ago two fascist Italian bombs fell on the Sant Felip Neri church and square and killed dozens of people, mainly orphaned children from Madrid who had sheltered here.
Monthly Archives: January 2015
Barcelona 1939
Today, on a freezing cold morning 76 years ago, Barcelona fell to Franco’s rebel fascist army which set about destroying everything republicans and revolutionaries had built. Rather than show an image of his triumphant troops in Plaça Catalunya, here’s one of civilians in a food queue three days later in the defeated city.