{"id":57004,"date":"2024-09-05T23:34:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57004"},"modified":"2024-09-07T21:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T19:58:03","slug":"the-bunkers-of-clot-de-galvany-in-elche-and-a-house-with-a-very-macabre-decoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/05\/the-bunkers-of-clot-de-galvany-in-elche-and-a-house-with-a-very-macabre-decoration\/","title":{"rendered":"The bunkers of Clot de Galvany, in Elche, and a house with a very macabre decoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is a country with abundant natural resources, with 16 national parks and numerous regional and local natural parks.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/08\/22\/a-route-between-malaga-and-the-sierra-de-cazorla-through-a-bunker-and-the-cerezuelo-river-vault\/\">A route between Malaga and the Sierra de Cazorla, through a bunker and the Cerezuelo River vault<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/14\/a-tour-of-the-coastal-artillery-batteries-that-protected-the-cartagena-arsenal\/\">A tour of the coastal artillery batteries that protected the Cartagena Arsenal<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>One of the local nature parks is <strong>Clot de Galvany, in Elche (Alicante)<\/strong>, a natural space managed by a municipal company. In addition to nature, this place may be interesting for fans of exploring military fortifications, since there are preserved (in very good condition, by the way) <strong>several bunkers from the Spanish Civil War<\/strong>, which according to <a href=\"https:\/\/clotdegalvany.es\/servicios\/bunkers-y-trincheras\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the official website of this natural site<\/a>, were intended for anti-aircraft surveillance. There are <strong>four bunkers in total<\/strong>, as well as some trenches.<\/p>\n<p>This Tuesday, the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@Elinquietonaturaleza\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">El inquieto naturaleza<\/a> (to which I recommend you subscribe if you are interested in these issues) <strong>published an interesting video touring this natural area and the aforementioned bunkers<\/strong>. In addition, the video includes a visit to an abandoned house with caves inside and which also has <strong>a ceiling with macabre decoration<\/strong> (I would not dream of visiting such a place at night). In the final part of the video, its author meets up with the friends of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> at at the C-50 anti-aircraft artillery battery of Atalay\u00f3n, in Cartagena: (the video is in Spanish, you can activate automatic English subtitles in the bottom bar of the player):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"naturaleza y bunker , una casa escalofriante y vivac con los amigos de entresierras\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jB5A0oqYJ5E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some screenshots from this video, as a preview. We start with <strong>one of the bunkers in Clot de Galvany<\/strong>. The construction of these defences was carried out by the Republican side, in anticipation of a possible amphibious operation by forces from the National side.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53974076353_835849590e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another of the bunkers at Clot de Galvany<\/strong>. As you can see, the construction of these defences was remarkable, compared to other rather improvised positions of this type elsewhere in Spain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53972951452_b6999c0058_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The entrance to one of the Clot de Galvany bunkers.<\/strong> In the video you can see the interior of this position.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53974076358_69c74fa078_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The macabre house I refer to in the title.<\/strong> You can see it in more detail in the video, whose author has not revealed its location.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53973840671_d0b0f948d6_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is a country with abundant natural resources, with 16 national parks and numerous regional and local natural parks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19535,16879],"tags":[1958,22635,22628,11861,11170,11862],"class_list":["post-57004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exploring-portada-eng","category-fortifications","tag-alicante","tag-battery-c-50-el-atalayon","tag-clot-de-galvany","tag-elche","tag-spanish-civil-war","tag-valencian-community"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:53:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}