Cub blindat / Cubic pillbox
Al costat del mas abandonat Torre del Blasi, al costat de la autovia A2 a Bellpuig, es troba aquest iconic bunquer de la guerra civil. L'havia vist fotografiat diverses vegades, però no l'havia pogut localitzar. Es troba al pas del que ja aleshores era la carretera entre Lleida i Tàrrega, tot i que per la seva posició descarada al mig d'un camp no m'imagino com pensaven camuflar-lo.
Com la gran majoria de fortificacions republicanes de les planes de Lleida, sembla que fou abandonada sense pràcticament combats el gener del 39.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofensiva_de_Catalunya
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This extremely conspicuous MG bunker built by the republican army during the later part of the Spanish civil war still stands above the main highway between Lleida and Tàrrega (and Barcelona). Being placed in the middle of a flat field, I don't know how they intended to camouflage it, other that as an agricultural storage hut (there's an abandoned countryhouse nearby).
As most of the Republican fortified lines in Catalonia, this bunker was abandoned without much or no fight in January 1939, with the final fascist offensive against Catalonia.
Cub blindat / Cubic pillbox
Al costat del mas abandonat Torre del Blasi, al costat de la autovia A2 a Bellpuig, es troba aquest iconic bunquer de la guerra civil. L'havia vist fotografiat diverses vegades, però no l'havia pogut localitzar. Es troba al pas del que ja aleshores era la carretera entre Lleida i Tàrrega, tot i que per la seva posició descarada al mig d'un camp no m'imagino com pensaven camuflar-lo.
Com la gran majoria de fortificacions republicanes de les planes de Lleida, sembla que fou abandonada sense pràcticament combats el gener del 39.
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofensiva_de_Catalunya
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This extremely conspicuous MG bunker built by the republican army during the later part of the Spanish civil war still stands above the main highway between Lleida and Tàrrega (and Barcelona). Being placed in the middle of a flat field, I don't know how they intended to camouflage it, other that as an agricultural storage hut (there's an abandoned countryhouse nearby).
As most of the Republican fortified lines in Catalonia, this bunker was abandoned without much or no fight in January 1939, with the final fascist offensive against Catalonia.