Barbadillo de Herreros South Live Cam

The first decades of the 20th century fed off of large doses of the inertia that characterized the 19th century, barely altered by the incipient industrialization taking place in the capital and in the city of Miranda, and the subsequent consolidation of the employer associations and class-conscious or integrating labor associations. This social dichotomy was reflected, as would be expected, in housing: while the bourgeoisie leaders were identified with the most avant-garde artistic developments, as seen in some of the buildings n the Plaza Mayor, the Paseo del Espolón, and the Paseo de la Isla, the first immigrants to join the proletariat in the capital began feverish construction of “Cheap housing” in the city’s suburbs.

As a counterpoint to this marked trend of continuance, the middle years of the century were characterized by two truly traumatic events – the Civil War of 1936-39 and the rural exodus of the 50s-70s. In terms of the crudest realities of war, as a battlefield the province of Burgos was hardly touched, with the exception of the front in the barren lands and valleys of the north. This is not to say that the drama of the war went unnoticed by the population of Burgos as a whole, which was shaken daily by the calls for new soldiers, the news of the deaths on the different Spanish fronts, and above all, by the atmosphere of terror that was sown among the civilian population of the immense majority of the province’s towns and cities by the most aggressive sectors of the warring bands. In the territory of Burgos, which fell entirely within the so-called “National” band, the protagonism in this sense corresponded, and was especially intense, to the groups who sympathized with the uprising, whose programs of purges, cleansing, and summary executions gave the conflict violent connotations universal in scope and with brutal intensity