Wednesday, 10 July 2019

The murder in Alicante of Miquel Grau - the last Francoist victim before the transition to democracy

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I must have walked past this memorial dozens of time while out and about in the city or catching the tram from Lucheros station. The final ...
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Wednesday, 12 June 2019

An exhibition marking the eightieth anniversary of the fall of Alicante

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I was lucky enough to be in Alicante on a saturday morning in late May when the exhibition marking the 80th anniversary of the fall of the...
Tuesday, 12 March 2019

A machine gun post up in the hills behind Arenales

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Up in the hills behind the new hotels that have sprung up at the south of Arenales, rising up over the Clot De Galvany nature reserve, lies ...

The exploration of the collapsed and hidden defences in the Clot continues

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I've come to the conclusion that there is a mass of hidden and undocumented Civil War military history buried away in the Clot De Galvan...
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Tuesday, 4 December 2018

More air raid shelters being opened up in Alicante - a visit to the Plaza Musico Tordera

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The authorities in Alicante are slowly opening up some of the long-buried civil war architecture that lies beneath this beautiful city and w...
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Tuesday, 27 November 2018

The Civil War air raid siren in the Santa Pola castle

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I must have wandered through the square of the castle in the middle of Santa Pola dozens of times but I had a friend with me who had never b...
Wednesday, 26 September 2018

The Clot throws up another undocumented piece of Civil War archaeology

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Sometimes as an amateur historian you just get lucky. It's happened to me a few times but occasionally you get the shock of your life w...