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Barcelona is a city that´s still growing, where many changes have taken place and are still happening, not only in the configuration of the city itself and the expansion of its most emblematic districts but also due to the amount of travellers and tourists who go there. Therefore, we can find in Barcelona a unique and relevant personality of social involvement, a struggle for freedom of expression and, above all, an intense political action that generates a feeling of community. There´s no doubt that Barcelona is one of the cities with the most cultural effervescence in Spain, with a struggle for gender equality, rights for immigrants and the resistance against abuses of power on different levels coming from all sides. The people of Barcelona have a considerable will for freedom of expression.
This is of course a virtue and not a fault. That a community can express itself and reject what goes against their rights and at the same time create the networks to do so, is something that´s very important. This character of resistance is nothing new in Barcelona. As everyone knows, Catalonia was an important anarchist stronghold since the end of the 19th century. Please, dear reader, let´s understand anarchist not just as a way of revolt but also the search for equality amongst all individuals, of all genders and races, for a community with equal rights for everyone without any abuse of power.
And so, Shelter 307 is the best example of the spirit of a community that worked together with the local governments of back then in order to create a shelter to protect themselves and survive the Spanish Civil War. This is a space that is undoubtedly the trail of a war that was definitive both for Catalonia and for Spain, a war that shaped the social and ideological future of various generations, even those of today.
Shelter 307 is a subterranean structure of over 1,300 ft long and 7ft high, with a width that ranges from 5ft to 7ft. This shelter has three entries and was built, as I mentioned before, with the effort of a lot of people from the Poble Sec district to be able to protect themselves from the air strikes of the war. Its reconstruction and opening to the general public today tries to show the cruelty and terror of the war and how it affected the city of Barcelona. Like this one, there are many shelters around Barcelona. During your visit to Shelter 307, don´t hesitate to also visit the Poble Sec district, very close to the mountain of Montjuïc, where you can also find the National Museum of Art of Catalonia among others. If you want more information on Shelter 307 and the history of the city, visit this website: http://www.bcn.cat/museuhistoriaciutat/es/muhba_refugi_307.html
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