First bombing during the Civil War
The first time Barcelona was shelled during the Civil War was on 11th February 1937. The Italian cruise ship Eugenio di Savoia was aiming at the Elizalde arms factory here on Psg Sant Joan, but the shells missed their mark. 18 people were killed.
The image above shows the effects of the aerial bombing of Gran Via on 17 March 1938. From here
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Links
- Los barceloneses recuerdan el primer bombardeo de la Guerra Civil, del que hoy se cumplen 70 años La Vanguardia
History of Barcelona
- Barcelona’s air defences during the Civil War
- Camp de la Bota – Barcelona’s death camp
- First bombing during the Civil War
- Fossar de la Pedrera – Montjuïc’s common grave
- La Modelo Prison
- Plaça de la Milicià Desconegut
- PSUC headquarters in Plaça Catalunya
- Somorrostro shanty town
- The La Canadiense Strike
- The Lenin Barracks – George Orwell in Barcelona
- The Liceu bomb
- The People’s Olympics in Barcelona
- 1936 revolution in Barcelona
- Barcelona in the Civil War
- Buenaventura Durruti
- Ethel MacDonald in Barcelona
- Fransesc Boix
- George Orwell tours in Barcelona
- History of anarchism in Barcelona
- Homage to Catalonia quiz
- Ramon Mercader, Trotsky’s assassin
- Salvador Segui – El Noi de la Sucre
- Spanish Civil War quiz
- Trotsky in Barcelona: Like Nice in a hell of factories
- Videos about the Spanish Civil War
