The town of Guernica is in the Basque area of northern Spain. It has about 17,000 population today. During the Spanish Civil War, on April 26, 1937, the Nazi Luftwaffe and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria bombed Guernica at the request of Francisco Franco, who wanted to overthrow the Basque government. The bombing went on for three hours. Although casualty figures differ, the official Basque figures were 1,654 civilians killed. The horror became the subject of Picasso's famous painting "Guernica". I've read that it is a huge painting--about 11 feet by 25 feet--now on display in Madrid. The painting is one of the greatest pieces of anti-war art.
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