Just down the narrow road back towards the main drag from the gun emplacements at El Faro you can find whats left of the Republican barracks where the crew from the gun batteries would have been stationed.
When I first located both the barracks and the defences they were in a shocking state and crumbling into the ground.
In the past few years the local authority has funded some stabilising and re-building as Spain becomes more open about its haunted past and more inclined to preserve some of the history. Can't keep the graffiti artists away though.
In the pine groves a few hundred metres away from the barracks I have found some derelict and much more basic gun emplacements that are steadily being reclaimed by the natural environment more than 75 years on.
Just down the narrow road back towards the main drag from the gun emplacements at El Faro you can find whats left of the Republican barracks where the crew from the gun batteries would have been stationed.
When I first located both the barracks and the defences they were in a shocking state and crumbling into the ground.
In the past few years the local authority has funded some stabilising and re-building as Spain becomes more open about its haunted past and more inclined to preserve some of the history. Can't keep the graffiti artists away though.
In the pine groves a few hundred metres away from the barracks I have found some derelict and much more basic gun emplacements that are steadily being reclaimed by the natural environment more than 75 years on.
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