LOS BARRIOS
(Photo: EuropaSur) Shortly after finding that a post-war bunker was removed from a plot at the Las Marismas shopping centre in Los Barrios, the Instituto de Estudios Campogibraltareños (IECG in its Spanish acronym) has noticed that another one has gone from another area of the town. This one was a double anti-tank fortification built as a line of defence during World War 2. Located on the road that runs from Venta del Carmen to Calle Puente Romanoi, behind Ciudad Jardín and only 50m from the main road, the two casemates classified in 2006 by the institute, have disappeared, leaving a pile of rubble. The organization has long requested that these unique military edifices be protected as part of the country's historical heritage.>
(Photo: EuropaSur) Shortly after finding that a post-war bunker was removed from a plot at the Las Marismas shopping centre in Los Barrios, the Instituto de Estudios Campogibraltareños (IECG in its Spanish acronym) has noticed that another one has gone from another area of the town. This one was a double anti-tank fortification built as a line of defence during World War 2. Located on the road that runs from Venta del Carmen to Calle Puente Romanoi, behind Ciudad Jardín and only 50m from the main road, the two casemates classified in 2006 by the institute, have disappeared, leaving a pile of rubble. The organization has long requested that these unique military edifices be protected as part of the country's historical heritage.>
The system of bunkers of the Campo de Gibraltar is unique in Spain and the most important together with one along the Pyrinnees. This is so because of the area's geo-strategic significance, added to the presence of the British colony of Gibraltar, from which the Franco regime was wary of an invasion during second world war.
Hundreds of such bunkers were built all along the coast from San Roque to Tarifa and beyond. Many of them have been destroyed while others remain hunkered down in neglected expectation. In fact, La Línea announced a guided tour of the ones in that municipality though we are not aware that anything came of it.
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