Buenaventura Durruti, a Spanish anarchist revolutionary and leader of the confederal militias during the Spanish Civil War, was fatally shot on 19 November 1936 during the battle of Ciudad Universitar
Durruti's body lying in state at Via Laietana
Buenaventura Durruti, during the early months of the Spanish Civil War in 1936
Funeral procession with Durruti's coffin, on 23 November 1936
Durruti's gravestone in Montjuïc Cemetery
Durruti Column
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The Durruti Column was an anarchist militia column, led by Buenaventura Durruti, which fought on the side of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. It was the first militia column establis
Death and funeral of Buenaventura Durruti
…following day, at the age of 40. At that time, the situation on the frontlines had deteriorated, with fierce fighting between the Nationalists and the Durruti Column over the University City's Hospital Clinic. Durruti went from the Column's headquarters to rally his men at the front, and was struck by a bullet when…
The Casa de Velázquez, before (below) and after (above) the civil war
The ruins of the Hospital Clinic, after the civil war