During our childhood in Pujalt we played among the remains of shelters, holes, small mounds of stone… without knowing too much what they represented. When we asked the elderly about this, they replied: “this is from the War, it is better not to talk about it”.

The Spanish Civil War, lasting from 1936 to 1939, was like all wars: a collective tragedy that touched people’s life, hopes and future projects and made them suffer. Therefore, people who born years later, found a dictatorial Spain and lived a Catalonia deprived of its culture and historical rights.

What a few years ago was a dream, an ambitious project for Pujalt, is now a reality.

Those war structures, mountains of stones, shelters in the mountains, … where we played as children and which for someone were simply distant memories of childhood, have been recovered and have become a testimony of the experiences of a generation. These remains are also a tribute to all people that suffered directly from the tragic events that happened between 1936 and 1939.

We invite you to visit the museum facilities of our simulation of the training camp of the XVIII Popular’s Army of Pujalt’s Republic. Walking through the forest you will be immersed in a magnificent landscape and undoubtedly discover a world full of sensations and intense emotions, longing for the family, letters to parents, brothers or the fiancee, unique and little contact many times with the previous life of so many young people. The fear of the unknown, the war, the myth of fighting for ideas, freedom, the Republic, etc so many feelings, so many emotions, etc.

Visiting the camp facilities you will relive a silent world, which was disappeared for many years and that among all we have to keep as the living memory of everything that happened and we do not want to relive ever again.

In this web we propose you to make a virtual walk through these places, to have a first contact with history, spaces, houses, facilities, utensils, letters, memories and the feelings of those who suffered in their skin that unfortunate Civil war. Discover it!

Spring of 1938. Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, reaches its final year. Franco has sunk the front of Aragon, arriving at the Mediterranean Sea through Vinaroz and Alcanar, causing the division of the republican territory in two. The Second Republic government, with the firm and desperate purpose of defending Catalan territory, promotes a big and deep reorganization of the military units that were present in Catalonia.

From April 1938 onwards a new front follow the rivers Ebro, Segre and Noguera Pallaresa from the sea to France’s bordier, with some national bridge heads on the left side of the rivers: Tremp and Balaguer. Demoralization was very present at all levels of the Catalan rearguard.

During the spring of 1938, contingents of the XVIII Popular Army arrived in Pujalt in order to create what would be the INSTRUCTION BASE of this army.