1322. UNA MIRADA FOTOGRAFICA ALS REFUGIS ANTIAERIS DE BARCELONA

In the city that would become a testing ground for the Second World War, a new, extraordinary form of resistance emerged. This book offers 170 never-before-seen photographs of Barcelona’s Civil War air-raid shelters, which saved thousands of lives between 1937 and 1939. The images of these shelters – whether for the community, private, for collectivised factories, or belonging to Republican institutions or political leaders like Juan Negrín and Lluís Companys – show a whole city concealed ten metres underground.
A collection of photographs of a unique piece of civic, historical and architectural heritage in Europe invites us to build a different memory of wartime Barcelona: the memory of the resistance. While the scars of bombings remain above ground, underneath, there is still extraordinary evidence of solidarity and resistance.