El Mirador de la Memoria

The bullet holes you see in the sculptures at El Torno are real and recent. It has been more than 70 years since the guns of the civil war officially fell silent and more than 30 since Spain’s brutal dictator died peacefully in his sleep. Even after so many years, tensions here lie close to the surface (as do the dead in unmarked mass graves across the land). The Spanish Civil War is still in many ways an open wound, one that festers yet is purposely ignored due to a national pact of amnesia. Overlooking one of the most beautiful valleys in the country, the gunned down and defeated were given a memorial and their peace, but it lasted for only a few hours when they faced a firing squad once again.

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Originally published on Trazzler