Never been there but it sounds interesting. It's a fascinating period and captured in a great book Winter in Madrid if you haven't already read it.

I keep meaning to stop off at a martyred town, Belchite in Aragon, when we pass by but haven't as yet.

Hi Neil

I haven't read Winter in Madrid, although Mrs S is a fan of C J Sansom.

I have read, As I Walked one Midsummer Morning and a Moment of War by Laurie Lee. Its' a story of him leaving his Gloucestershire home goes to Spain and fighting for the Republican cause.

At the moment I am reading another book by Lee, A Rose for Winter. This is also set in Spain, Andalusia, 15 years after the war. His description of living in Cadiz highlights just how much Spain has changed.

I think we will make this trip a Homage to the Spanish Civil War. Belchite is on the list.

If anybody is interested in this sort of thing the a visit to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid
is essential to see Picasso's painting of Gurnica. In fact there is so much more to see as well

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