Spanish Civil War 1936–1939
Museo de la Batalla del Jarama, Morata
Morata de Tajuña · Museum
The story
A small private museum, built up by local enthusiasts, gathers thousands of objects recovered from the Jarama battlefield or donated by veterans and their families: rifles, grenades, pierced helmets, mortars, lamps from the refuge caves, coins, passes and ration cards. It is the natural starting point for the battlefield, which saw Nationalist forces under Varela cross the Jarama in February 1937 and Republican troops, with the International Brigades, stop them short of the Madrid–Valencia road at a cost of many thousands of casualties on each side.
What you can see today
Display rooms of battlefield finds, maps and photographs.
Plan your visit
Located in the Mesón El Cid, Calle Carmen, Morata de Tajuña (tel. 918 730 181); ask there for opening. Morata hosts a battle re-enactment each February.
Sources
- rutasconhistoria.es/loc/museo-batalla-del-jarama
- rutasconhistoria.es/loc/museo-batalla-del-jarama
- guerraenmadrid.net/2019/03/16/cinco-lugares-de-la-batalla-del-jarama-que-debes-visitar/
Nearby sites
- International Brigades memorials, Jarama · 3 km
- Suicide Hill (Colina del Suicidio), Jarama · 5 km
- Pingarrón hill, Jarama · 7 km
- Jarama bridges: Pindoque & Arganda · 13 km
- Los Yesares positions, Pinto · 21 km
- Cerro de los Ángeles · 23 km
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