An educational approach to the Archaeology of Spanish Civil War: the bridgehead of Balaguer

Abstract

Since 2008, the Camp d’Aprenentatge de la Noguera, an education service of the Generalitat of Catalonia, has been involved in the restoration project of one of the most emblematic places of the Civil War in western Catalonia: the defensive position of the so called Merengue in Camarasa. To carry out this task we have relied on the collaboration of the Associació d’Estudiosos del Front del Segre, which promotes the location and retrieval of spaces of memory in the area of the bridgehead of Balaguer and the diffusion of sites and facts about the war. The contribution of the Camp d’Aprenentatge de la Noguera has involved the design of a series of educational activities for secondary school students that allow them to approach to the location and key moments of the local history of the Spanish Civil War both for working in the classroom and at the archaeological sites.