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Jamie Core Member

Joined: 23 Nov 2006 Posts: 38
Location: Hythe Kent
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2008 10:32 am Post subject: Great location |
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Hi
http://www.2pamplona.com/2008/10/feature-san-cristobal-pamplona/
I spent the weekend in Pamplona, Spain and walked up a mountain where there is a fort built in 1876 and was one of the most modern impenetrable forts of its time.
As it took 40 years to built, most of it concealed by moats and underground buildings it became obsolete.
However at the end of the Spanish Civil war it became a prison for 750 inmates on the orders of Franco.
On May 22, 1938, some prisoners organised a mutiny for a massive prison break. 792 prisoners fled away but only 3 succeeded to get the French border; 585 were arrested, 211 died and 14 of the arrested who were considered the leaders were sentenced to death. Most fugitives were intercepted during the following days. In 1988, a sculpture was erected to honour the memory of the Republican people dead there. The fort ceased to be prison in 1945.
The Ministry of Defence still owns the facility although the last troops left it in 1991. Although there has been several projects for recovering the fort and giving it a new use and in 2001 it was decreed "good of cultural interest", it remains today abandoned and ruinous.
It felt very atmospheric and I felt a feeling of despair there.
If we all lived a little nearer it would be a great place for an invest.
_________________ James
(we cannot discover new seas unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore)
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alan Top Moderator

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Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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sounds like a great place
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