Spanish Civil War 1936–1939
Refugio antiaéreo de Villanueva de Córdoba
Air-raid shelter
The story
Villanueva de Córdoba lay in the Republican-held north of Córdoba province, close to the front around Pozoblanco. In March–April 1937 Queipo de Llano's forces tried to break through to the Almadén mercury mines and were stopped at Pozoblanco by Republican forces under Joaquín Pérez Salas and others; the front then stayed close by until the end of the war. Nationalist aircraft bombed the towns of the area, and in 1937 Villanueva built an underground shelter beneath its main square. It is one of the declared Places of Democratic Memory in Andalusia.
What you can see today
An underground shelter beneath the Plaza de España.
Plan your visit
Visits by arrangement; ask at the town hall or tourist office in the Plaza de España.
Sources
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanueva_de_C%C3%B3rdoba
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villanueva_de_C%C3%B3rdoba
- juntadeandalucia.es/organismos/culturaydeporte/areas/cultura/memoria-democratica/lugares-memoria-democratica.html
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pozoblanco
Nearby sites
- Santuario de la Virgen de la Cabeza (1936–37 siege), Andújar · 54 km
- Lopera — battlefield and Jardín de los Poetas Ingleses (Cornford & Fox) · 55 km
- Espejo — site of Capa's 'Falling Soldier' · 72 km
- Castuera concentration camp (La Verilleja) · 89 km
- Campillo de Llerena – Civil War Museum & Italian cemetery · 108 km
- Valle de la Serena – Republican defence line (La Serena pocket) · 110 km
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The Spanish Civil War 1936–1939
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