The shelter explains the civil war with names and surnames

Located right next to the train station, the station's air-raid shelter became, in 2006, the first museum shelter in Catalonia. It is an exceptionally well-preserved shelter, dug directly into the granite rock, with more than 110 meters of galleries.

The shelter was built by the neighborhood of La Garriga, in 1938, under the orders of the local Passive Defense Board and served to protect the population from air attacks, especially when fascist bombs fell on the town, the January 29, 1939.

In 2018, the new museumization of the space was inaugurated. Through a guided tour that will not leave you indifferent, traveling between the summer of 1938 and February 1939, you will be able to grasp the anguish and absurdity of the war, as well as the episodes of solidarity and collective effort that took place in La Garriga during a few frantic months.

It is precisely the anguish and absurdity of war that aims to highlight the recovery of the station's bomb shelter: through panels, audio elements and with a magnificent audiovisual, the visit to the shelter will allow you to know the evolution of the conflict in Catalonia and, specifically, in the Garriga; daily life in the republican rear; the devastation caused by Franco's air attacks; the work to protect the population of the rear...

VIDEOS AND DOCUMENTS FROM THE HISTORICAL MEMORY CENTER

• "Aviation and bombardment La Garriga"
• "From here and there, people from la Garriga"
•  "La Garriga, responses and memories of the bombing"