12019-04-04T01:04:43-07:00Ruins of Belchite5The ruins of the town of Belchite mark the location of a brutal battle in which Nationalist forces were defeated by the Republic in 1937. Franco declared the site to be memorialized, while also allowing a new Belchite to be built by Republican prisoner labor. Allowing the town to stand in ruins as a memorial where his forces had been defeated could have been a tactic to compare a Republican victory with scenes of destruction and loss.media/belchite.jpgplain2019-04-06T19:30:33-07:00193641.3048, -0.7550
