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Cemetery 'La Barranca'

This cemetery contains 401 victims of an execution by the Nationalists on 10 September 1936. In front of the cemetery is a memorial.

The mass executions of Republicans and other opponents by the Nationalists took place from 1936 (from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War) to 1945 and are referred to as Spain's White Terror. Estimates of the death toll range from 150,000 to 400,000 people.

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Source

  • Text: Fedor de Vries
  • Photos: Koos Winkelman

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