Air‑raid shelters: civil war heritage in Valencia city

Authors

  • Andrea Moreno Martín UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA
  • Tatiana Sapena Escrivà UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA

Abstract

Memorial sites are an interesting part of the wide range of Spanish Civil War heritage. The city of Valencia preserves a large number of vestiges of that time, among them, more than three hundred air‑raid shelters. In this article we consider these bomb shelters, taking into account the new circumstances relating to this heritage, starting in 2017, when new legislative and management scenarios were set in motion. The approval of the Valencian Autonomous Community Law for Democratic Memory and Coexistence, a recent modification of the Valencian Cultural Heritage Act which expressly highlights civil war heritage, as well as unprecedented activity by the Valencia City Council regarding its preservation and restoration, offers us a framework for reflection which allows us to objectively assess the patrimonial value of air‑raid shelters, as well as the difficulties involved in their management.

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Author Biographies

Andrea Moreno Martín, UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA

Andrea Moreno Martín has a degree in History and in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a PhD in Archaeology from the Universitat de València, where she works as a Cultural Heritage Manager. She is a technical adviser to the Historical Memory Committee of Quart de Poblet and collaborates in teaching and research tasks at the Universitat de València and the Museu Valencià D’Etnologia.

Tatiana Sapena Escrivà, UNIVERSITAT DE VALÈNCIA

Tatiana Papena Escrivà has a degree in Sociology from the Universitat de València, a Master’s in Gender and Equality Policies between Women and Men run by the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid, and a Master’s in Cultural Management from the Universitat de València. She is an associate lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Universitat de València and a technician in social research for the Gabinete Técnico de la Confederació Sindical de Comissions Obreres del País Valencià.

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Published

2017-12-19

How to Cite

Moreno Martín, A. and Sapena Escrivà, T. (2017) “Air‑raid shelters: civil war heritage in Valencia city”, Debats. Journal on culture, power and society, 2. Available at: https://revistadebats.net/article/view/1727 (Accessed: 22 December 2024).

Issue

Vol. 2 (2017): Annual Review 2

Section

MISCELLANEOUS

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