Yes, David, Seminar walls were shelled from less than 500 m far. Even though, when the Republicans entered the building, there were still defendants hidings over the arches of the building shooting down to the International brigadists. It was the same in the churches.
Franco destinated a considerable budget to a program called "Devastated Areas", but it was only possible to carry out because of the enormous amount of "cheap" work force:Red POWs.
I'm in several pics, guess who I am.
Agracier, about the possitions, there are many other really amazing and even more impressive places, such as Mojón del Lobo (underground artillery position), Bunkers of Vérrtice Parapetos, Nationalist bunker systems around Belchite, Republican trenches in Mediana and Fuentes de Ebro, Rodén (another ghost town near Fuentes), Vértice Sillero, El Frontón and Observatorio republican positions (where they stood the hughe 210 Tm bombing in march 9th 1938), old airdrome in Plenas...and many others.
If you want, I'm PMing you my phone number. I can give you a tour (not asking you to pay after all your help
) if I can arrange a free day in my work.
About the non Spaniards...I captioned that one because of the 3 Korean girls.
This was a group coming from an International workcamp, there were Koreans, Ucranian, French, British, Czech, German and Turkish.
BTW, if you're reading this, DreamK, sorry for slipping so out of the topic here. Next time I promise we'll move this kind of conversations to History & Walkarounds.