Tema: History

Fernando Hierro. The history of Gernika in Watercolours.

This exhibition shows us a historical view of Gernika, starting with the 1st century and leading up to the Gernika of the 20th century before the bombing.

The visitor is offered the chance to go back in time to the beginnings of Gernika…

The Basque Government and the Spanish Civil War

This time the exhibition is a selection of books concerning the behaviour of the Basque Government during the Civil War since the Statute was passing and the Basque Government was created until the conquest of Biscay by Franco’s army in June 1937…

Condor Legion

The support of the Condor Legion was decisive for the victory of General Franco in the Spanish Civil war. One of the objectives of this German military unit under the command of General Hugo Sperrle and whose Chief Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, was to experiment with new methods and strategies of combat on what was already called in 1936 ‘The next war’, the Second World War.

76th Anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika

Commemoration of the 76th Anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika with differents events organized by the town hall of Gernika, the Gernika Peace Museum, the Gernika Culture…

Memory and Exile

The Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika organises bibliographic exhibitions with the aim of disseminating its bibliographic collections. On this occasion the theme is Memory and Exile.

Brussels, a Forerunner to Gernika (1695-1937)

The south of the Netherlands was attacked on numerous occasions in the middle of the 17th century, as Louis XIV, the ‘Sun King’, was determined to overpower these lands ruled by the Spanish Crown.