The city of Valladolid extending to the east forming the district of San Isidro, a working class neighborhood of low houses, bounded by railroad tracks.
The street is now called Avenida de Juan Carlos I was a road known to Valladolid as "Road to Casablanca." To the east, the road Soria booted directly from the Plaza Circular, calls out for "Puertas de Tudela", have now disappeared.
was, above all, a slum area where proliferated farms and farmhouses. Above, and on the heath, municipal incinerator was installed, which is still the huge brick fireplace, now dwarfed by the buildings.
The area had elevations of land, the Altos de San Isidro. In one of these high is the hermitage of the same name, a place well known to Valladolid, who came (and still do today) to celebrate the pilgrimage of May 15. Across the road Soria, another senior, is the headquarters of the Guardia Civil is a modern construction. And
towards Villabañez road, where today we find the school Narciso Alonso Cortés, had a natural Cascajero that supplied gravel to the construction of Valladolid.
Overall, the area was known as Campo de San Isidro , and was the place chosen by the rebels to execute those sentenced to death after summary trial.
precisely why they chose this place? Probably because of the conditions for security. He was well connected, yet, far enough from the center of the city to avoid possible public order problems. The area, very desolate, was easily controlled. The wall, located in a clearing, he could be surrounded by the armed forces in order to be able to prevent any outbreak response.
The conduct of defendants was made with security measures were not needed because there was no resistance.
These public executions were followed by numerous citizens of Valladolid. Whole families came to the show. It is unfortunate that many Valladolid find acceptance in the assassination of Republicans a fun, but it did and there are many testimonies that confirm it. Since
The shootings occurred in the early hours of the morning, a clever churrero who had his stall in churros and other spirits in the circular plaza, a street vendor set up near the wall, and so horrible show attendees could take comfort in a drink in the cold autumn mornings. The situation was too painful even to the executioners, as civil governor did admonitions about this behavior "unedifying", from the pages of "El Norte de Castilla", which were followed by people.
from the surrounding neighborhoods, San Isidro, Pajarillos and pillars, were heard downloads rifle, and neighbors, terrified, were counting the coup de grace for the number of people executed in that morning.
After the executions, the bodies were transported in trucks to the municipal cemetery, which were usually buried in a mass grave. There were families who managed to bury their own graves in particular, other families were able to buy a box, trying to dignify the burial, but most of the shot ended up stacked in mass graves in the cemetery, thrown haphazardly covered with lime and buried no name. Thus
killed nearly 500 people were sentenced to death in trials conducted outside the law. The first shooting took place at dawn on 29 to 30 July, and the victim, Dr. Jose Garrote Tebar, physician and socialist councilman who had been subjected to court-martial two days earlier, on Monday 27 July, and was the first sentenced to death by rioters. Those
gravel pits were numerous visits. After the executions, held at dawn, was the blood of the victims scattered in the room. Closed the churros and the city became curious about their daily chores, to church, school ...
then stray dogs came to lick that blood, and children living near the frightened with stones.
WITNESS
APL, witness of the era.
"When the so-called National Movement, in the same neighborhood Pajarillos Altos or San Isidro, which is the same, he made the biggest disgrace to Mr. Quintana and his entire Corporation, were brutally murdered (although some say shot) almost before they taught children to read and write, as the place of execution was a hundred yards of this neighborhood, and from there they heard the discharge. This was terrible, but even worse was seeing distinguished ladies, dressed in skins and Pamela who came to witness such a terrible show, and never missed the clumsy shift that put a post on the road churros. In this appeared an army captain who, pistol in hand, wiped the paint, spoiling his bad behavior and making them see that we are human. On this point, long ago a story appeared in the Norte de Castilla, in which a man denied these facts. But this server can ensure that they were true and that children previously mentioned land cover with this atrocity remains left in that place. "
NOTE PUBLISHED IN THE PRESS VALLADOLID
" For the Office of Censorship and Press civil government, made public the following note:
One of the main goals you set out to achieve the glorious movement that launched the English army, supported enthusiastically by the people healthy, it is undoubtedly that of citizenship education in all its aspects. And one of these is the nobility of feeling and generosity to the vanquished. In these days of military justice meets the sad duty to comply with its rulings, to give satisfaction to the public vengeance has been able to observe an unusual gathering of people to the place where these acts are verified, looking between those children young, young girls and even some ladies. Are public, it is true, such acts but the enormous gravity of the same, the respect due to the unfortunate victims of their mistakes, so supreme in trance, are reason enough for people for their ideas, many of which flaunt, need shelter in her breasts piety, not attending such events, much less taking their wives and children. The presence of these people there said very little in their favor, and considered the appeal of a show like, no matter how justified it is, gives a poor idea of \u200b\u200bthe culture of a people. That is precisely why, hopefully never denied the education noble people of Valladolid, which will take into account these observations.
Valladolid, 24 de septiembre, 1936. "
