Resistance is fertile

We went to Chinchón with Alex and Hazel and Laurie today, which was enjoyable and chilly. On the way (photos of Chinchón on the analogue camera, so will be posted a little later), we stopped at the monument to the International Brigades and the defense of Madrid, which stands on top of a hill covered in trenches and tunnels (which we would have explored but for the fact of their being dug into a rabbit-ridden hill and our having no torch). The monument itself is two vast interlinked red hands, and has clearly had paint thrown at it by non-Republicans at some point in the past. I assume the same thing happens from the a different point on the political spectrum at the Valle de los Caidos, but it's not big or clever from either side.

Trench

Monument

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Tunnel