Walking through Barcelona today, it is difficult to recall the feelings, sensations, and events that took place in the city’s streets during the long and cruel Spanish Civil War, a war that cost the lives of almost a million people, the exile of hundreds of thousands, and the rise to power of Franco.<\/p>\n
How did this war come about? Why did the military coup fail in Barcelona? Who were the anarchists who took control of the streets and institutions during the first months of the war? What was it like to experience the revolution? What happened during the famous “May Days”? When and why was the war lost?<\/p>\n
We will try to answer some of these questions by following, in part, in the footsteps of George Orwell and his book “Homage to Catalonia,” an (idealized) chronicle of his experiences in revolutionary Barcelona and on the Aragon front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Walking through Barcelona today, it is difficult to recall the feelings, sensations, and events that took place in the city’s streets during the long and cruel Spanish Civil War, a war that cost the lives of almost a million people, the exile of hundreds of thousands, and the rise to power of Franco. How did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3717,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[60],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3714","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-past-trips","7":"tm-no-options","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n