530. Tourism and Landscape in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939

Abstract

War tourism, or political tourism, due to its inherent connotations of ideology and propaganda, is bound to places and landscapes presently at war, and also to places and societies which literature, art, propaganda or accounts of personal experiences have made symbols of far off conflicts. In Spain, the voyages into a warlike past are almost always directed towards the events, places and landscapes connected, in one way or another, with the war of 1936-1939. Furthermore, it seems interesting to dig down into the cultural significance of “tourism” and the promotion of places and landscapes throughout the Spanish Civil War itself, marking the distinction between the different realities of tourism which co-existed in the country during the period.