Residential building attacked by Franco’s aircraft in 1936 may not become memorial, rightwing council suggestsCampaigners are urging Madrid city council not to abandon plans to create a museum on a site immortalised in a Robert Capa photograph that captured the aftermath of a fascist bombing raid in the early days of the Spanish civil war.On his second trip to Spain towards the end of 1936, the Hungarian-American war photographer came across a bomb-damaged house in the working-class Madrid neighbourhood of Vallecas, its roof and facade torn with shrapnel and the street outside peppered with debris. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/08/were-devastated-anger-as-madrid-backtracks-on-museum-plan-for-site-of-robert-capas-famous-civil-war-photo
Author : Sam Jones in Madrid
Publish date : 2024-12-08 05:00:44
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‘We’re devastated’: anger as Madrid backtracks on museum plan for site of Robert Capa’s famous civil war photo
