Monte de Estépar II, Burgos (2016). More than 300 people were shot here between August and October 1936. They were ‘taken out’ from the Burgos prison to be executed.Monte de Estépar II, Burgos (2016). Stones placed at grave sites help families honour missing loved ones, murdered between August and October 1936. Many have been buried under the excavations necessary for construction of the high-speed train tracks and the A-62 highway.
Monte de Estépar III, Burgos (2016). This grave on Mount Estépar measuring 4.70 x 1.90m contained 26 bodies in three layers, murdered between August and October 1936.
This grave on Mount Estépar measuring 4.70 x 1.90m contained 26 bodies in three layers, murdered between August and October 1936. Mass executions were carried out in the dark of night and contrary to what happened with most of the ‘paseados’, the bodies were not left exposed for days but were immediately buried in ready prepared mass graves. A total of 96 bodies were exhumed from four such graves between between July 2014 and April 2015.
