Campo de la Bota II (Parque del Fórum), Barcelona (2017). Carme Claramunt Bonet, 41, was the first woman to be shot here, at dawn of 23 April 1939. In the following months ten more women were executed.Fossar de la Pedrera (Montjuïc), Barcelona (2017). The disused quarry contains thousands of people from both sides: victims of the anti-fascist militias, of the events of May 1937, of the bombing of Barcelona between 16 and 18 March 1938 and 3.400 victims of Francoist executions between 1939 and 1952.
Campo de la Bota I (Parc del Fòrum), Barcelona (2017). Between 1939 and 1952, 1.717 people were shot at the Campo de la Bota by the Franco regime. The bodies would later be thrown into the Fossar de la Pedrera.
Under the Franco regime between 1939 and 1952, 1,717 people, 1,706 men and 11 women, were shot at the Camp de la Bota. Normally they were transferred from the prisons in groups of 20 people and executed by a squad of the Civil Guard in front of the, 3 meters high and 40 meters long, parapet on the beach. The bodies would be later thrown into the Fossar de la Pedrera (Montjuïc). In the fall of 1936 the republican authorities had shot 44 soldiers that had taken part in the military coup in the same place.
