George Orwell was in Barcelona some months after the Civil War started, in 1936. In his first pages of well-known book "
Homage to Catalonia" he refers to the Ramblas as "big avenue where crowds of people were constantly wondering around and loud megaphones day and night with revolutionary songs". He joined the war fighting with a marxist party, POUM, and spent some days at the Observatory of the Poliorama Theather, from where he observed and fought against the Franco's army. This theater building acted as a very strategic point towards defending the Ramblas and Catalunya Square.
George Orwell was in Barcelona some months after the Civil War started, in 1936. In his first pages of well-known book "Homage to Catalonia" he refers to the Ramblas as "big avenue where crowds of people were constantly wondering around and loud megaphones day and night with revolutionary songs". He joined the war fighting with a marxist party, POUM, and spent some days at the Observatory of the Poliorama Theather, from where he observed and fought against the Franco's army. This theater building acted as a very strategic point towards defending the Ramblas and Catalunya Square.
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