Spanish Civil War 1936–1939
Puerto de Almería & Parque de las Almadrabillas
City site
The story
Almería's harbour was the arrival point for tens of thousands of refugees from Málaga in February 1937, and the target of the German naval bombardment of 31 May 1937. After the war, many Andalusian Republican exiles who had fled to France were captured by the Germans in 1940 and sent to Mauthausen; of about 1,500 who passed through the camp only about 500 survived. The memorial in the Parque de las Almadrabillas by the port remembers them.
What you can see today
The harbour front and the memorial to the Mauthausen deportees in the Almadrabillas park.
Plan your visit
10 minutes' walk from the shelters; open access.
Sources
- ladesbanda.es/puntos-de-memoria/
- ladesbanda.es/puntos-de-memoria/
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardment_of_Almer%C3%ADa
Nearby sites
- Refugios de la Guerra Civil, Almería (air-raid shelters) · under 1 km
- Fuerte de Carchuna and the Motril front, Granada coast · 88 km
- Barranco de Víznar (mass graves, Place of Memory) · 106 km
- Parque Federico García Lorca, Alfacar (Fuente Grande) · 107 km
- Huerta de San Vicente (García Lorca house-museum), Granada · 109 km
- Puente Viejo de Maro (Desbandá crossing), Nerja · 124 km
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