Overview

Poble Sec 307 Air Raid Shelter
(others described below)

Number 307 : Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 169

TRANSPORT
4 mins walk (400 m) Carrer Vila i Vila (Paral·lel Station) to Carrer Nou de la Rambla, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Around 90 built, just in Gracia (Google Map) From Sitges 39.1 km, 28 mins via C-32

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Built by a local, so it says, whose family reportably remain anonymous in fear of reprisals. Hidden by a glass factory & only recently re-descovered. As the populas reportably prefered to subdue memories of the war & the founding family.

Spanish or Catalan half-hour tours (book ahead for English or French)
Poble Sec shelter for 1,500 people, with three entrances
400 (some say 200) metres of vaulted tunnels into Montjuïc Mountain
Height 2’10 meters, width between 1.5 and 2 meters. (ave 1.6 metres wide and 2 metres high)
Air for approx 2 hours, as no ventilation to avoid chemical warfare
With running water from the bedrock
Lots of subjects for dicussion, were banned, as were furniture & animals
Toilets, a fountain, nursery, children’s room and fireplace
Local teenage girls acted as‘nurses’in the infirmary, as Doctors were on the front line

Involves, as many do:

Air raid soundtrack (planes flying low overhead, whistle of bombs approaching and mayhem)
Information on it’s use, it’s hardships (limitations)

Address: Nou de la Rambla, 169
Phone: 932 562 122
How to get there: Metro L2 and L3, stop Paral.lel. | Bus 20, 21, 36, 57, 64 and 157.
Web site: www.museuhistoria.bcn.cat
E-mail: museuhistoria@bcn.cat
Opening times: Saturday & Sunday, from 10am to 1pm. From Tuesday to Friday, only groups with reservation.
CLOSED: January 1st, May 1st, June 24th & December 25th
Metro: L3 at Paral·lel

ALL INFORMATION SUBJECT TO CHANGE

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Bombing of Barcelona

(all shelters on one page here)

First city in world where Air bombing targeted the public
During Spanish Civil War 1937 and 1939
192 – 194 raids by Mussolini’s Italy and Nazi Germany, Fascist Franco’s allies
Black-out’s and the evacuation of children to the countryside, began

Started: ‘March 16th 1937’ at 10.08pm, for 3 days involving 44 tons of bombs
45 buildings destroyed and 75 damaged

Board of Defense and Local Defense Councils built 1,300-1,400 Refugis aeris (public air raid shelters)

Designed by Nationalist Engineer Ramón Perera (he advised the UK on shelters, later)
Built by civilians, often the old & young, that remained
Of around 1 million Barcelonians, many were injured and around 2,500 died

BARCELONA

OUTSIDE OF BARCELONA