Monument Victims of the Madrid Mountain Barracks

This memorial "Hombre Quabrado" (Broken Man) commemorates the victims who fell at the beginning of the Civil War in Madrid when the Republicans took over the El Cuartel de la Montana (Mountain Barracks) on 20 July 1936. The rebellious general Fanjul, who was waiting for reinforcements, had entrenched himself there with approximately 1,500 men and 500 Phalangists and Monarchists. The reinforcements did not arrive and the barracks fell into the hands of the Republic after much violence and bloodshed. General Fanjul was sentenced to death for military rebellion and most of the others who survived were also later killed in the Paracuellos de Jarama massacres. The monument was created by Joaquín Vaquero Turcios and unveiled in 1972.

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Source

• Text: Jan de Jager
• Photos: Jan de Jager
• http://149.235.17.77/portales/monumenta/es/Monumentos/Monumentos-urbanos/Caidos-del-Cuartel-de-la-Montana/?vgnextfmt=default&vgnextoid=2638091d1b9c4510091d1b9c45102e085a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=8fac3cb702aa4510VgnVCM1000008a4a900aRCRD
• NOGALES, M.C., De slag om Madrid.