La Retuerta I (Bend of Death), Villagatón, León (2016). Seven people were murdered on 4 August 1936 at this bend on the old highway to Madrid. Detained in Ponferrada, the seven prisoners were told that they were going to be transferred to León.
At kilometer 352 of the old highway from A Coruña to Madrid, they murdered seven Bercians, among them one who was a soccer player of the Ponferradina Sports Society in the 1930s, José Gallego Redondo, 23 years old. Next to him died Jerónimo Álvarez Pacios, 28, Ramón Fernández Pérez, 25, Eliseo Cobo Gómez, 32, José Monje Hernández, 25, Florencio González Cañueto and Ramiro Llaguno Gutiérrez.
