{"id":57920,"date":"2024-11-29T23:44:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57920"},"modified":"2025-11-29T01:37:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:37:48","slug":"a-tour-of-the-trenches-of-the-sierra-de-huetor-and-the-ghost-sanatorium-of-alfaguara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/11\/29\/a-tour-of-the-trenches-of-the-sierra-de-huetor-and-the-ghost-sanatorium-of-alfaguara\/","title":{"rendered":"A tour of the trenches of the Sierra de Hu\u00e9tor and the ghost sanatorium of Alfaguara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Spanish Civil War, the province of Granada, in Andalusia, was divided into two sectors for several years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/12\/29\/moclin-its-fortifications-from-the-spanish-civil-war-and-the-spectacular-gollizno-route\/\">Mocl\u00edn, its fortifications from the Spanish Civil War and the spectacular Gollizno route<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/10\/01\/the-old-positions-from-the-civil-war-on-mulhacen-the-second-highest-peak-in-spain\/\">The old positions from the Civil War on Mulhac\u00e9n, the second highest peak in Spain<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The southern and western parts of the province - including its capital - remained in the hands of the nationalists, while the northern and eastern parts remained in the hands of the republicans. <strong>In the Sierra de Hu\u00e9tor, northeast of the city of Granada, defensive positions were built<\/strong> on the front line, which are still preserved today. Yesterday, the always interesting Youtube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@AventurasEntresierras\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aventuras Entresierras<\/a> (to which I highly recommend you subscribe) published <strong>an excellent video touring these positions<\/strong> and showing them from a bird's eye view.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these trenches, <strong>at the end of the video we can see the ruins of the sanatorium founded by the German Berta Wilhelmi<\/strong> (1858-1934), founded in 1923 with the name of Sanatorio y Dispensario de la Alfaguara, in order to treat tuberculosis patients. <strong>The sanatorium was located near the front during the Civil War<\/strong>, so it was damaged. The sanatorium was abandoned in 1956. This place has been linked to paranormal phenomena. In 2015, the famous journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VAR0WvF11sM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iker Jim\u00e9nez dedicated a broadcast of his Milenio 3 program to this place<\/a>. I leave you with the video (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=\"Recon por Trincheras Olvidadas de la Guerra Civil Espa\u00f1ola.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DfL5qL3-qsQ?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 four screenshots from this magnificent video, as a preview. We start with a spectacular aerial image of the <strong>trenchments of the Sierra de Hu\u00e9tor, in the town of Alf\u00e1car<\/strong>. A set of Civil War defences that are very well preserved and that include some firing positions equipped with battlements, as if it were a medieval castle.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54172802401_8b69792d40_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The entrance to a bunker<\/strong>, in the trenches of the Sierra de Hu\u00e9tor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54173245575_f553120729_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Jos\u00e9 Antonio Barracks, in Alf\u00e1car<\/strong>. It was built to house the troops of the national side on the Sierra de Hu\u00e9tor front. The accommodations were circular, with a diameter of seven meters and capacity to accommodate 18 soldiers in each one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54171919747_bbcc024816_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The ruins of the Alfaguara Sanatorium and Dispensary<\/strong>, also known today as the \"ghost sanatorium\" due to its abandonment and the strange phenomena that some say they have observed in this place.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54171919762_919718c6a7_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Spanish Civil War, the province of Granada, in Andalusia, was divided into two sectors for several years.<\/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":[19536,11549,16877],"tags":[23194,23195,16673,23192,1025,23191,11462,11170],"class_list":["post-57920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-military-history","category-ruins","tag-alfacar","tag-alfaguara-sanatorium-and-dispensary","tag-andalusia","tag-berta-wilhelmi","tag-granada","tag-sierra-de-huetor","tag-spain","tag-spanish-civil-war"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-11 20:03:04","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\/57920","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=57920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}