Guided visit
The Civil War in Barcelona
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On our guided tour, we’ll look at the Civil War in Barcelona and recall the events that took place in the city between 1936 and 1939.
This work of historical memory covers various aspects of life in Barcelona in the past.
This is your chance to see with your own eyes and bear witness to some of the places where traces of the war are still visible today.
Our guide’s great flexibility will enable your students to make the most of this educational tour, organised according to their level.
Discover the city under the bombs
Our guide will take you through the revolution and the dictatorship. You will gain a better understanding of this event by learning about the oppositions between the Republican camp and the Nationalist camp led by General Francisco Franco. On the Republican side, the President of Spain was Manuel Azaña, a democratically elected Republican until the coup d’état.
You will be immersed in this tragic event, one of the hardest wars in living memory. After General Franco’s victory, a dictatorship began in the country that lasted almost 40 years, from 1939 to 1975.
You’ll remember the panic caused in Barcelona by the bombs from the ships and planes of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. This guided tour will allow your students to pay tribute to the lives that tried to protect their Barcelona.
Find out what the Civil War was like in Barcelona on our tour.
- We begin our tour in Plaça Catalunya.
- We continue along the Rambla de Canaletas, seeing the Betlem church, whose original interior was lost in a fire in 1936.
- We find ourselves in the Cathedral district and visit other points of historical interest, such as Plaça Sant Felip Neri.
- Continuing our route, we pass Plaça Reial and continue along Nou de la Rambla, which takes us to the end of Barcelona, to Refuge 307, one of the spaces prepared to withstand air raids, with over 400 metres still preserved.
- A visit to the refuge or to Plaça Celle del Diamant in the Grace district gives us an idea of how long the war lasted and of the danger that thousands of people had to endure during the Civil War.
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