Barcelona Air-Raid Shelters: From The Spanish Civil War To The Blitz

Instituto Cervantes and Imperial College London are holding a seminar on air-raid shelters in Barcelona. Ana Sánchez, a journalist and photographer specialising in cultural communication and historical memory and Xavier Domènech, Lecturer in Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, will talk about the model of Catalan shelters, a network of 1,322 underground air-raid shelters that can still be found below the streets of Barcelona. 

Ana has published reports in different media about air-raid shelters and places of memory. 

Xavier has worked mainly on the periods of the Spanish Civil War, Franco’s dictatorship and the Spanish transition to democracy. 

Aimed at the general public and specialists in this subject.