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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sam Jones in Madrid

‘We’re devastated’: anger as Madrid backtracks on museum plan for site of Robert Capa’s famous civil war photo

Black and white photo of two children sitting on the pavement in front of a building with a heavily pockmarked facade and structural damage. A woman at the doorway smiles as she watches them
Robert Capa’s image of children playing in front of the bomb-damaged facade of No 10 Peironcely street, Madrid in 1936. Photograph: Robert Capa/© International Center of Photography/Magnum Photos

Campaigners are urging Madrid city council not to abandon plans to ­create a museum on a site ­immortalised in a Robert Capa photograph that captured the aftermath of a fascist bombing raid in the early days of the Spanish civil war.

On his second trip to Spain towards the end of 1936, the Hungarian-American war photographer came across a bomb-damaged house in the working-class Madrid neighbourhood of Vallecas, its roof and facade torn with shrapnel and the street outside peppered with debris.

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