Tarragona
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Sep 17, 2026
Diego SchoeningGUEST
Y, este, y [chasquido de lengua] por el otro lado, mis abuelos pater-- mis abuelos maternos, una maravilla, una maravilla.
Diego SchoeningGUEST
Sí, pues venían de, de estar as-- eh, se, asilados, este, políticos por la guerra civil española Y, este, y pues mi madre y mi familia todos son de, son de Barcelona, de Tarragona a Barcelona.
Diego SchoeningGUEST
Algunos ya viven en Girona y, este, entonces, de cierta manera, pues me toca esta parte fea que fue ser nieto de la guerra.
Diego SchoeningGUEST
Habemos muchos que somos nietos de la guerra, que al final creemos que no nos afecta, pero yo creo que, que de cierta manera te llega un poco de eso, que es fuerte.
Paco GarciaGUEST
Of course, we had some cities that we all knew, like Granada, Toledo, um, Barcelona, tha- that kind of places.
Paco GarciaGUEST
Valencia, even Tarragona.
Paco GarciaGUEST
But it was more about the atmosphere of the history at the time than the places themselves.
Paco GarciaGUEST
For example, we, we wouldn't have Aquelarre and in the book based in Madrid, you know, "This is, this is where you play." It, it was more a, "And look around you, and this is what you had," everywhere, because it would be very similar with different legends and myths, but it would be very, very similar.
José Antonio DuroGUEST
The same thing happens in that group with Hercules and with the city of Alicante.
José Antonio DuroGUEST
The same thing happens with Tarragona and with Nastic.
José Antonio DuroGUEST
But it is that in that group are Huesca and Zaragoza, who also have the obligation to be up there, and many others.
José Antonio DuroGUEST
There are the subsidiaries that we talked about before.
Katherine WalkerdineHOST
So when you're talking about the map, it's just making me think of one of our work colleagues.
Katherine WalkerdineHOST
And she's been just outside Tarragona for over 10 years.
Katherine WalkerdineHOST
And every year, due to climate change, it's getting hotter and hotter.
Katherine WalkerdineHOST
And they're now moving to Galicia.
Ari MattiGUEST
Okay, so it is Barcelona.
Ari MattiGUEST
Oh yeah, and I rode the bike from Barcelona to Tarragona.
Ari MattiGUEST
No way, that's as far as fuck.
Ari MattiGUEST
Maybe, but I slept on the way.
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The result was that you got no treatment there unless you were too badly wounded to be moved.
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In theory, most of the wounded were sent straight to Barcelona or Tarragona, but owing to the lack of transport they were often a week or ten days in getting there.
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They were kept hanging about at Sietamo, Barbastro, Monzon, La Rida and other places, and meanwhile they were getting no treatment, except an occasional clean bandage, sometimes not even that.
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Men with dreadful shell wounds, smashed bones and so forth, were swathed in a sort of casing made of bandages and plaster of Paris.
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A description of the wound was written in pencil on the outside, and as a rule the casing was not removed till the man reached Barcelona or Tarragona ten days later.
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It was almost impossible to get one's wound examined on the way.
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The few doctors could not cope with the work, and they simply walked hurriedly past your bed saying, Yes, yes, they'll attend to you at Barcelona.
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One morning it was announced that the men in my ward were to be sent down to Barcelona today.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Partly it was due to the remoteness of Barcelona from the actual fighting.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
I noticed the same thing a month later in Tarragona, where the ordinary life of a smart seaside town was continuing, almost undisturbed.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
But it was significant that all over Spain voluntary enlistment had dwindled from about January onwards.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
in catalonia in february there had been a wave of enthusiasm over the first big drive for the popular army but it had not led to any great increase in recruiting the war was only six months old or thereabouts when the spanish government had to resort to conscription which would be natural in a foreign war but seems anomalous in a civil war undoubtedly it was bound up with the disappointment of the revolutionary hopes with which the war had started the trade union members who formed themselves into militias and chased the fascists back to zaragotha in the first few weeks of war had done so largely because they believed themselves to be fighting for working-class control but it was becoming more and more obvious that working-class control was a lost cause, and the common people, especially the town proletariat, who have to fill the ranks in any war, civil or foreign, could not be blamed for a certain apathy.
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Peter TuckerNARRATOR
In various places the armed police forces had made attacks on anarchist strongholds.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
A Puigcerda on the French frontier, a band of carabineros, was sent to seize the customs office, previously controlled by anarchists, and Antonio Martán, a well-known anarchist, was killed.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
Similar incidents had occurred at Figueras and, I think, at Tarragona.
Peter TuckerNARRATOR
In Barcelona there had been a series of more or less unofficial brawls in the working-class suburbs.
Jackie FloresHOST
They had a really good time together, however, Esther didn't stay with him and she continued her travels alone, but they would still talk here and then whenever she got the chance.
Jackie FloresHOST
So Esther went on her way, and when the summer of 2023 came around, she spent some time with her two married friends, Miguel and Vanessa, in Tarragona.
Jackie FloresHOST
So again, Esther kind of just, like, hopped around Spain.
Jackie FloresHOST
You know, again, she just had that free spirit where she wanted to travel and just, you know, have her own adventure, so she would hop around with different friends, and Miguel had offered to let her stay with them a while while she got back on her feet and even offered to help her find some work since there was a lot of seasonal work available in the area.
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Jackie FloresHOST
I love when you read poetry, and I love how sweet and innocent you look." Now, as Jose was doing his own investigation, Esther's family also began their own with the information that Jose had actually given them.
Jackie FloresHOST
He had sent Pepa a photo of Esther's contact list, which again, he said he had because she inserted her SIM card into his phone.
Jackie FloresHOST
Among the names in that list were two people, Miguel and Vanessa, the same couple that Esther had stayed at in Tarragona that summer that we spoke about earlier.
Jackie FloresHOST
Pepa spoke with them and explained how the search for her was going and how a man named Jose was helping them with the investigation.
Marti BuckleyHOST
Now, the numbers, let's do a little bit of numbers.
Marti BuckleyHOST
Catalonia is made up of four provinces, Barcelona, named for the city, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona.
Marti BuckleyHOST
There's around 8 million people in Catalonia, which is roughly 16% of Spain, and the territory is 32,000 square kilometers, so a little bigger than Belgium.
Marti BuckleyHOST
The capital is Barcelona.
Marti BuckleyHOST
Add that to the fact that Barcelona is one of the main publishing centers for Spain and really the entire Spanish-speaking world, and you can see why the city gets so much attention.
Marti BuckleyHOST
But the truth is that most Catalans live in the rest of the province.
Marti BuckleyHOST
Girona, Lleida, Tarragona, Reus, wine country, ski towns up in the Pyrenees, down south in the Delta.
Marti BuckleyHOST
And a lot of what defines Cataluña and makes it special happens outside of the capital.
Alex EdwardsGUEST
Oh, yeah, Spain for sure.
Alex EdwardsGUEST
Barcelona or the Tarragona Tarragona yeah that first deployment yeah Tarragona the very
JoeHOST
first spot on the very first deployment that was your favorite spot you've ever been to
Alex EdwardsGUEST
it's pretty good I mean I mean like after everywhere everywhere else we went you know that deployment then a later deployment I don't know I just something about Spain like just that what just the weather the The architecture, I mean...
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