1.322: Una mirada fotogràfica als refugis antiaeris de Barcelona

Author/s: Ana Sánchez (Photography and text) and Xavier Domènech (Text)
Collection: Barcelona City and Neighbourhoods

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.

History

Arquitectura

Photography

Civil War

Patrimony

What are them saying

"La fotògrafa Ana Sánchez ha documentat 40 refugis antiaeris dels 1.322 que se sap, per ara, que es van construir a Barcelona. Moltes cases van construir els seus propis refugis i els investigadors consideren que encara no s'han trobat tots."

TV3 03/07/2023