Fayón recalls the battle of the Ebro with a massive recreation

The town of Fayón, where the battle of the Ebro was triggered, has returned to travel again to the dramatic days of this decisive contest that accelerated the end of the Spanish civil war. Thousands of people have attended guided activities and dioramas, and in the central recreation narrated of the conflict, this Saturday afternoon, where the pyrotechnics and the deployment of media recalling the attacks has flooded the space of the Reixaga, next to the Ebro, the scene of recreation.

As happened in the early hours Spain, France and also volunteers from the United States.

An acrobatics plane has recreated the bombings of the counteroffensive that Franco ordered by air, in a recreation with media of the time as a armored BA-6, a Ford truck, several motorcycles or a Chevrolet ambulance that operated in the same battle of the Ebro. As a final act, an honor formation of the recreationals as a symbol of concord and a memory of the victims.

“Recreation generates more interest every year and has a great economic impact in the area, since the accommodations of the region have been complete for days,” said the mayor of Fayón, Roberto Cabistany. During the morning, great interest among visitors have aroused the theatricalizations of the sets in which the role of women in espionage and counter -espionage in sabotage groups, in sanatoriums or in domestic economies has been relevant.

The recreation of the Battle of the Ebro of Fayón, declared a party of tourist interest in Aragon, is one of the most important cultural events. Photo: Fayón Tourism

“In Retaguardia there were very few men and it was the women who had to attend the patients of war, continue with the work of the field and maintain household economies,” explains the heritage technician and historian of Fayón, Aitor García. In addition, the public has been able to enjoy the military fair held this Saturday morning.

The historical atmosphere invades the municipality since Friday when the program was opened with the presentation of a book and the military and civil clothing contest, and continues until Sunday with guided visits to the trenches in which it continues to be excavated, and visits open to the Museum of the Battle of the Ebro de Fayón.

The recreation of the Battle of the Ebro of Fayón, declared a party of tourist interest of Aragon, is one of the most important cultural events in Spain around the Spanish Civil War, and the only recreation of the country in which a historical event with terrestrial, aerial and river environment is recreated.

Throughout the year, visits to the Ebro Battle Museum, one of the best equipment on the civil war in Spain with more than 1,000 square meters and abundant warlike material, and guided tours in Llaüt through the river, where strategic points of the Battle of the Ebro and the history of the old people of Fayón, which was submerged under the waters with the construction of the Ribarroja reservoir, can be carried out.