Carlos Balbuena

A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountains of León, is a mining complex full of significant architectural attributes, and also the imposing and ruinous remnant of a painful past that passed the ideas of freedom, literally, through the stone, turned into a great mass grave. Now, when the sun goes down, the souls that inhabit it rise up, refusing to forget.

The protagonist travels to the village of his family: a mining town in the province of León (Spain).

One of the most unknown episodes of the Civil War is known as 'La Bolsa de Biels'. In April 1938, the planes of the nationalist bloc bombed the villages of the Sobrarbe (region of Huesca). The majority of its inhabitants started to flee on foot, with children, old people and food on their backs, crossing the mountains until they reached the top of Puerto Viejo, which is one of the natural passages to France, located at almost 2,500 meters of altitude.

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