An earlier post covered the bombing of Alicante Market in May 1938 and the fantastic steel memorial that the Historical Memory comrades at last got permission to erect after years of fighting the authorities.
The market is a fantastic and vibrant place full of sights, sounds, smells and architecture that take you back for generations. It is a natural place to gravitate to if you are in that part of the City.
On a recent visit I noticed high up on a wall outside the back of the market another, earlier memorial to the more than 300 victims of the fascist bombing. It was put up only a few years before the steel memorial and from the wording and placement looks like a grudging effort by the PP council to placate the campaigners. It didn't work and now those who died that day have a memorial that cannot be ignored.
An earlier post covered the bombing of Alicante Market in May 1938 and the fantastic steel memorial that the Historical Memory comrades at last got permission to erect after years of fighting the authorities.
The market is a fantastic and vibrant place full of sights, sounds, smells and architecture that take you back for generations. It is a natural place to gravitate to if you are in that part of the City.
On a recent visit I noticed high up on a wall outside the back of the market another, earlier memorial to the more than 300 victims of the fascist bombing. It was put up only a few years before the steel memorial and from the wording and placement looks like a grudging effort by the PP council to placate the campaigners. It didn't work and now those who died that day have a memorial that cannot be ignored.
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