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September 13th , 2014 → 5:24 pm @

Sitges Balmins Pillbox Gun Emplacement

Field defence of Spain’s Civil War

The machine-gun nest at balmins beach and the coast battery

A small fortified structure as anti-invasion defence. Popularly known in the Uk, as pillboxes, by reference to their shape.

A concrete dug-in guard post, equipped with loopholes through which to fire weapons. A trench firing step hardened to protect against small-arms fire and grenades and raised to improve the field of fire.

Another stood on the the promenade beach towards Terramar Hotel

Sitges Balimns Pillbox Gun Emplacement

(please don/t enter : as it’s smelly & dangerous)



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