Qualla: Bombing of Xàtiva https://qualla.com/bombing-of-xativa en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:38:46 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/t/bombing-of-xativa-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Bombing of Xàtiva https://qualla.com/bombing-of-xativa Bombing of Xàtiva: Introduction https://qualla.com/bombing-of-xativa/ Photo credit Llapissera, CC BY-SA 4.0. The train reached Xàtiva station on the morning of 12 February 1939, and the platform was already crowded with people waiting for it. Word had spread that soldiers were aboard, and families had come to the station hoping to catch sight of a son, a husband, a brother among them, or simply to press a parcel into a familiar hand before the train moved on. It was an ordinary human scene in the last, exhausted weeks of the Spanish Civil War. It lasted only until half past ten, when the sound of aircraft engines came in high from the sea.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/t/bombing-of-xativa-wp/eyzt-bombing-of-x-tiva-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bombing of Xàtiva: The Platform at Half Past Ten https://qualla.com/bombing-of-xativa/ Photo credit Llapissera, CC BY-SA 4.0. The train carried military personnel of the Spanish Republican Army, men of the 49th Mixed Brigade being transferred to another posting. As it stood in the station, it was ringed by civilians, the ordinary throng of a market town whose railway was its lifeline to the rest of the ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/t/bombing-of-xativa-wp/eyzt-bombing-of-x-tiva-the-platform-at-half-past-ten.mp3 0:06 2 full Bombing of Xàtiva: Five Aircraft from Mallorca https://qualla.com/bombing-of-xativa/ Photo credit Llapissera, CC BY-SA 4.0. The attack was carried out at the behest of Francisco Franco's Nationalist government by the Aviazione Legionaria, the expeditionary air force sent by Fascist Italy to fight on his side. Five Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 bombers had taken off from Palma de Mallorca, out across the Medi...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/t/bombing-of-xativa-wp/eyzt-bombing-of-x-tiva-five-aircraft-from-mallorca.mp3 0:06 3 full Bombing of Xàtiva: The Toll https://qualla.com/bombing-of-xativa/ Photo credit Llapissera, CC BY-SA 4.0. One hundred and twenty-nine people were killed, one hundred and nine of them instantly, and more than two hundred were wounded. Most of the dead were soldiers of the 49th Mixed Brigade, but the crowd meant the killing did not stop at uniforms. Among the victims were fourteen wome...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/t/bombing-of-xativa-wp/eyzt-bombing-of-x-tiva-the-toll.mp3 0:06 4 full Bombing of Xàtiva: A War All but Over https://qualla.com/bombing-of-xativa/ Photo credit Llapissera, CC BY-SA 4.0. What makes the morning harder to bear is how little was left to decide. By February 1939 the Republic was collapsing. Barcelona had already fallen in January, and the central-southern zone that still held Xàtiva would surrender within weeks; Franco declared final victory on 1 Apr...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/z/t/bombing-of-xativa-wp/eyzt-bombing-of-x-tiva-a-war-all-but-over.mp3 0:06 5 full Bombing of Xàtiva: Remembering Xàtiva https://qualla.com/bombing-of-xativa/ Photo credit Llapissera, CC BY-SA 4.0. For decades the dead of the station were part of a history Spain was slow to speak about aloud. The bombing joined the grim roll of Republican towns struck from the air by Italian and German aircraft during the war, from Guernica to Barcelona, raids that helped make the deliberat...

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