Palacio de Congresos (former bullring), Badajoz (2016). On 14 August 1936 thousands had been rounded up here to be executed. In 2006, 70 years later, the bullring was demolished and replaced with the Badajoz Congress Centre.
After the conquest of Badajoz on 14.8.1936 the rebels sacked the city and murdered between 1,800 and 4,000 people. During the days of the massacre of Badajoz many were arrested and confined at the town's bullring, where either they were executed, or they waited until they were executed in the cemetery wall. In 2006 the bullring was demolished and replaced with the Badajoz Congress Centre.
