Educational visit to Cartagena

Today we are visiting the city of Cartagena. There, besides visiting their most interesting touristic points, we will participate in two activities: A visit to the Museum – Refuge of the Civil War, and a Master Class of La Base School of Cinema.

Museum – Refuge of the Civil War

During the Civil War Cartagena was one of the cities most punished by the bombardment carried out by Franco's aviation. In order to safeguarding the population a series of air raid centers were constructed through the whole city. The refuge centres in Gisbert Street were excavated in the side of the hill of the Conception, being one of the biggest in the city capable of housing some 5,500 people.

The expository tour through the galleries submerges us in such diverse aspects of the Civil War such as: the construction of the refuges and their typologies, the problems of provisions with the consequent use of the rations book, education and leisure, and the necessity to defend the people (passive defence) and also a military response (active defence). The exposition culminates with original pictures of the war taken from the Spanish Film Archive, from archives of Catalonia and the Region of Murcia and an homage to peace as an essential value for living together.

ACTIVITY

In a so interesting place, we will have the opportunity to talk about the origins of cinema and to create our own B&W Silent short movies, inspired in stories carried out in Cartagena during the Civil War.