Gum cards featuring scenes from the bombing of Barcelona from the series "To know the horrors of war is to want peace." Produced by Gum.Inc in Philadelphia, 1938.
Condor legion iB1E ncendiary bomb tail. Found on the Madrid front.Condor. The B1E was used in the destruction of Guernica.
Stamps from Spain and Czechoslovakia commemorating the destruction of Guenika and Picasso's painting.
Leaflet on the Cartagena bomb shelter. The visit includes an exhibition on the Civil War.
Article commemorating 80th of the bombing of Sant Felip Neri in El Periódico de Catalunya. 30 January 2018.
Front page of New European newspaper (December 2016) which adapts the famous Republican poster from Spanish Civil War to demand action on Syria.
Although Baghdad, Kabul and elsewhere had been bombed from the air by the colonial powers before, the cities of Spain, together with the attacks on Chinese cities by Japanese planes, were the first to be targeted systematically over a sustained period, ushering in the 20th (and 21st) century’s murderous affair with the mass bombardment of civilians.
Barcelona was attacked almost 200 times until its fall in January 1939. Between 2,500 and 3,000 Barcelona residents were killed and thousands more were injured.
Visiting bomb shelters
- Bomb shelter: Poble Sec Refugi 307 Sun mornings only. In English at 1030: 93 256 21 00. C/- Nou de la Rambla, 169. Metro Paral.lel. email: museuhistoria@bcn.cat. See Art below for the painting Guernica.
- Turó de Rovira bomb defences and free museum to the bombing of Barcelona (Saturday and Sunday mornings only) Web (English).
- Cartagena bomb shelter and Civil War museum
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