The Civil War bunker hidden in a town in Córdoba that can be visited

The traces of the Civil War are still present in many corners of Spain in the form of machine gun nests, trenches, and bunkers that survive to this day and can be found in towns like Quincena (Huesca) and Brunete (Madrid). Other examples include the air raid shelters in Alicante and the 4 kilometers of underground tunnels beneath the city of Almería .

Another area where we'll see these military constructions is the Subbética of Córdoba . Here, war remnants are also preserved among the undergrowth and can be visited, inviting us to recall that dark episode in Spanish history.

The Huts of Albendín

At the end of 1936, during the so-called Olive Campaign, the rebel troops advanced through the Subbética region of Córdoba, capturing Albendín (a municipality in Baena) on December 15. The front line stabilized near this village, turning the area into a tense boundary between the two Spains. Fearing a Republican counterattack from Jaén , the rebel army fortified the territory with a network of bunkers and machine-gun nests .

Only two buildings remain of that defensive system along the A-305 highway. The other two forts were destroyed during road works, leaving only a few vestiges: a solitary dome and fragments of concrete that emerge from the earth like poorly healed scars. The disappearance of these structures reflects the general lack of awareness of a historical heritage that, in other regions, has become a cultural and tourist attraction.

The Huts, as the locals called them, were built in the final stages of the war. The position consisted of a main bunker and three machine-gun nests, presumably connected by underground tunnels , now buried in oblivion. Its design, similar to that of other nearby fortifications, responded to a defense-in-depth strategy, although time has erased the trenches that once connected them.