The story of El Paral.lel
June 22nd, 2011 My lastest article in Barcelona Metropolitan. A history of El Paral.lel in Barcelona
Archive for June, 2011
“Illegal” immigrants – Barcelona 1935
June 22nd, 2011 According to police estimates in 1935 there were around 16,000 “illegal” immigrants in Barcelona: including 5,500 Germans, 1,500 Italians. 600 Argentineans, political refugees from dictatorships, but also in the case of the Germans, economic migrants who arrived after the 1929 crash and who made their living selling wares in the streets. They faced the constant threat of deportation from the Republican authorities. Source: Anarchism and the City by Chris Ealham
Passeig de Gracia, 1939
June 3rd, 2011
Photo taken by Robert Capa in Passeig de Gracia, 1939, Barcelona, on 16 January 1939, one day before the city fell to Franco’s troops.
