Overview
Poble Sec 307 Air Raid Shelter
(others described below)
Number 307 : Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 169
Around 90 built, just in Gracia (Google Map) From Sitges 39.1 km, 28 mins via C-32
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
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
OTHER
Barcelona Refugis Aeris :
Air Raid Shelters
Plaça del Diamant
Sant Adrià
El Clot (no public Access)
MORE INFORMATION
All barcelona air raid shelters on the map
View Barcelona Refugis Aeris : Air Raid Shelters via SitgesEvents.com in a larger map
OUTSIDE OF BARCELONA
La Garriga
76.5 km, 57 mins via C-32 (directions from Sitges, via Barcelona)
MORE INFORMATION
BARCELONA
OUTSIDE OF BARCELONA
Video
Visited 4096 times, 2 Visits today