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Refugi 307

Download date: 13/03/2024

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Built by the residents of Poble-sec during the Spanish Civil War, Shelter 307 is a place that holds Barcelona's historical memory and which testifies to the horrors of war.

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Safety underground

During the Spanish Civil War, Barcelona was the first city to be systematically bombed from the air. The city’s people set up the Passive Defence Council, which built a great number of air-raid shelters around Barcelona to protect themselves. There is evidence of almost 1,300 bomb shelters, and that of Poble-sec was among the largest, able to hold around 2000 people.

Built by the local residents themselves, Refugi 307 takes advantage of the topography and the slope of Montjuïc, where it is located, which enables it to have a street-level entrance at the end of Carrer Nou de la Rambla. Inside, it opens up into a network of almost 400 m of tunnels, which have electricity, a toilet, kitchen, seating and a play area for the little ones, as well as a small nursing station that could tend to the injured.

Indelible memory

As a historical location testifying to the difficulties of that era, today Refugi 307 is managed by the Museu d’Història de Barcelona (MUHBA). A guided tour allows you to walk through the tunnels and see the elements that still remain from those times, like posters stuck on the wall specifying some surprising rules for coexistence, such as forbidding you to talk about politics and religion or foster pessimism. A real legacy of the atrocities of war.

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Location and contact

Location and contact

Refugi 307

Address:
Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 175
Districte:
Sants-Montjuïc
Neighborhood:
el Poble-sec
City:
Barcelona

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Observacions

A través dels seus 400 metres de túnels, es poden reviure les angoixes d´una ciutat que, durant la Guerra d´Espanya, s´enfrontà a un fenomen nou: el bombardeig indiscriminat sobre la població civil, una pràctica militar que només havia estat breument assajada durant la Primera Guerra Mundial. Per fer-hi front, les administracions i la població treballaren plegats en la construcció de centenars de refugis. Molts romanen encara vius a les entranyes de la ciutat, però pocs són visitables. El refugi 307 n´és un dels millors exemplars, i alhora, esdevé un autèntic memorial de la lluita per la supervivència i el desastre de les guerres.


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