A return visit to an old friend

I sometimes get asked what is the closest piece of Civil War archaeology we can take a look at if we are in Gran Alacant and pushed for time, or don't want to spend hours clambering over rough ground and mountains trying to locate something that may not be there. Well, if you enter the Clot De Galvany at the Carabassi end and then take the first left turning on the track after a couple of hundred yards you will come across the splendid, camouflaged bunker in the first picture. It's a belter and I hadn't dropped by for a while and was pleased to see it is still in fine condition. Just in front of it there is a concrete trench installation that would have guarded the old main road now replaced by the sprawling urbanisation of lower GA. The trench is a bit overgrown not but apart from the obligatory graffiti remains in excellent condition with it's thick, buttressed walls and you can still see one of the old machine gun mounting positions. A remarkable survivor more than eighty years on.