This weekend I attended one of the many routes that the organization ARAMA 36/37 organizes every month to see the fortifications and therefore also the battlefields of the Civil War that exist in the region. We visited a section of fortifications Republican who besieged and harassed the way they used the Nationals to break the siege of Oviedo.
These fortifications, most circular, they had a estrada and several loopholes by which they could fire rifles or machine guns if they were ready. Constructed of concrete and metal-framed roofs were they were able to withstand the impact of artillery.
Map Northern Front the hall is breaking the siege on the Asturian capital in this largely middle aisle of the Republic war effort.
The fortifications were built on top of peaks, facing forward and joined together through trenches, dug caves to shelter from inclement weather and store supplies.
era propaganda poster
View from inside the fortification
10/01/1937 terminated only serious fortification 20 days before the fall of Gijón
and therefore the entire northern front.
Coarsely finished, while under enemy fire.
Picture taken from the shipbuilding, the entrance was blocked
curiously rectangular, not circular.
pit where the artillery was placed behind the fortifications.
3D images of a typical fortification.
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