I was on a bus on the way into Alicante when idly glancing out the window I spotted across the road through some bushes what looked like the curved concrete roof of a bunker. Jumping off at the next stop I crossed the busy three lane into town, climbed a couple of fences and was stunned to find a perfectly preserved Republican gun post protecting the now-disused single track railway line into the Port of Alicante. I have never seen this one documented before. Not only is the bunker in great condition but you can follow the overgrown rail track all the way up to the old derelict station which would have been the main point for supplies into the City as it held out to the end during the Civil War. This discovery really did blow me away and is one of the most extraordinary slices of living history that I've come across on this journey.
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