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OUTSIDE OF BARCELONA
La Garriga
La Garriga, Avinguda Pau Casals, La Garriga, 08530, Catalonia, Spain
76.5 km, 57 mins via C-32 (directions from Sitges, via Barcelona)
- Air-raid shelter, opposite the la Garriga train station), dug directly into the granite rocks
- Built in 1938 with 110 metres of galleries
- Air raids such as the one on January 29, 1939 (15 died)
- Guided visits: the second Saturday of each month, at 11am and 12 noon.
- Visits can be arranged for groups
- First Catalonian bomb shelter museum in 2006 with audiovisual resources and simulated bombing
- Exceptionally well preserved
- Talk about the war between a grandmother and her grandson, and from the comments of two international soldiers
Phone: 938 605 663 or 938 605 050
E-mail: turisme@ajlagarriga.cat Web: http://www.visitalagarriga.cat
Free admission for children up to 8 years.
La Garriga has several other major sites associated with memories of the war and heritage of local people
Website: www.aviacioiguerra.cat/espais.php?id=17
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