Museum / Former Air Raid Shelter Guernica

The safer shelters were on the west side of the Unión Square. The wall on this side rests against the mountain slope. We just dug four cave-shaped shelters into the mountain slope. They were about 10 metres deep. These four shelters were for the people from the market area and from the Ferial.
Two of the four tunnels dug in 1936 were reopened in 2018.
The smaller of them, which was never finished, now contains a scale model of the shelter as initially built. In the other you can see an audio visual presentation with light and sound effects showing what it was like for those who sheltered here during the raid.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman