Almería air raid shelters

Entrance to the shelters.

The Spanish city of Almería suffered up to 52 bombings from air and sea, with a total of 754 bombs dropped during the Spanish Civil War.[1] This led to the decision to create a system of underground shelters for the protection of, approximately, 40,000 civilians. These shelters measure more than 4.5 km long, and they are equipped with a surgery room and a food storage room. They were designed by the local architect Guillermo Langle Rubio,[2] being today the most important and better preserved shelters in all Europe.[3] These refuges have stood the most important attack in all Almería's history, the Bombardment of Almería, by the nazis in 1937.

References

  1. ↑ Virginia Martínez Ruiz. "los refugios de la guerra civil" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 July 2012.
  2. ↑ Milagros Soler. "Refugios de la ciudad de Almería" (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  3. ↑ Alberto M. Molina (15 January 2009). "Paseo subterráneo a través de los refugios de la Guerra Civil" (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2012.
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