{"id":41116,"date":"2025-05-29T08:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/?p=41116"},"modified":"2025-05-29T08:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T06:35:33","slug":"history-talk-the-war-routes-of-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/history-talk-the-war-routes-of-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"History Talk. The War Routes of Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/4mjmvqwf1hn41.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41117\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is our final talk of this season before the summer break. <strong>David Ebsworth<\/strong>, one of our regular presenters and civil war expert, now takes us on one of Franco\u2019s real-life 1938 battlefield tours. Join him \u2013 and 1930s Coventry school-teacher Mary Walker, an ardent supporter of General Franco \u2013 as we meet some of their actual fellow-travellers, hear from the tour guides, encounter a few new heroes and villains, visit some of the astonishing sites and works of art along the routes and the coastal Camino, and reveal completely new secrets of history\u2019s most audacious propaganda exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Ebsworth3-759x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41118\" style=\"width:594px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1938, General Franco&#8217;s Nationalist forces launched&nbsp;&#8220;National War Routes,&#8221; guided tours of battlefields in areas they had recently occupied.&nbsp;These tours, like the &#8220;War Route of the North,&#8221; were state-sanctioned propaganda efforts aimed at legitimizing the Nationalist regime and showcasing their dominance over the Republicans.&nbsp;The tours, which began in July 1938 and continued until the end of World War II, were estimated to have drawn between 6,670 and 20,010 participants, mostly foreigners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David has done other great talks to Javea U3A on the Spanish Civil War, and this will not be an exception<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tuesday 10th June 10.30am for 11.00 start<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Javea Players Studio, Javea Players Studio, Carrer del Cronista Figueras Pacheco, 6, 03730 X\u00e0bia, Alacant<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All U3A members welcome. No need to book, just come along!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"513\" src=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Map-Javea-Players-1024x513.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-41119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Map-Javea-Players-1024x513.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Map-Javea-Players-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Map-Javea-Players-768x385.jpg 768w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Map-Javea-Players-600x301.jpg 600w, https:\/\/u3ajavea.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Map-Javea-Players.jpg 1311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is our final talk of this season before the summer break. 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