You had better hurry because you have until this coming Sunday (the 9th) to view the photo exhibitions that are set up in the Municipal Library of Salobreña with the subject of the Desbanda in 1937.

The exhibitions are Mar de Enea and Haciendo Camino by Víctor Mercury and La Columna de Los Ocho Mil by José González Barrero.

The first two are the fruit of a research project and showing images of those ten days of the fleeing column of mainly civilians, chased by Franco’s fascist troops. They not only include photos but also narrations left by those that participated in the march.

In the case of The Column of the Eight Thousand by González Barrero, it recounts the first exodus of the Spanish Civil War that took place in September 1936 in the lands of Extremadura, where thousands of people had to flee from the south of the province of Badajoz to Azuaga.

Although several thousand managed to reach their destination, nearly two thousand were caught and killed during the escape at the hands of Franco’s soldiers.

(News: Salobreña, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)

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