Texto y Fotos Indicadas: José Manuel Serrano Esparza
ENGLISH VERSION
Durante las muchas décadas de investigación sobre la estancia de Robert Capa y Gerda Taro en Cerro Muriano (Córdoba), ha sido una creencia común - en la cual nos incluimos- el que ambos habían llegado a dicho pueblo de la sierra norte cordobesa durante la mañana del 5 de Septiembre de 1936 a bordo de un coche de prensa oficial procedente de Montoro, sede del Cuartel General Republicano en la zona, al mando del General Miaja.
Pero el estudio que hemos realizado de 23 fotografías de Robert Capa, incluídas en La Maleta Mexicana, desconocidas hasta ahora y descubiertas por el ICP de Nueva York al abrir una de sus tres cajas y en las que se aprecian a diferentes milicianos durmiendo sobre el suelo, ha hecho posible que elrectanguloenlamano.blogspot.com descubra que Capa y Taro no llegaron a Cerro Muriano el 5 de Septiembre de 1936, sino dos o tres días antes, conviviendo con los milicianos (además de con los soldados regulares y algunos oficiales leales a la República) en diferentes zonas de la finca de Villa Alicia (situada aproximadamente 1 km al suroeste del pueblo), la Loma de Las Malagueñas, el propio casco urbano de Cerro Muriano, la zona de lavaderos y fundiciones de la Córdoba Copper Company, etc.
Se trata de 23 fotografías hechas por Capa con su Leica III cromada y objetivo Summar 5 cm f/2 a distintos milicianos que se hallan tumbados descansando sobre una zona de la finca de Villa Alicia próxima a la entrada principal de la misma y que está repleta de encinas, bajo cuya sombra muchos de ellos duermen profundamente.
Photo: José Manuel Serrano Esparza
La orografía del terreno, los uniformes que llevan los milicianos -la mayoría de los cuales proceden de Alcoy (Alicante)-, ataviados con monos y gorras de la CNT y de la FAI, así como la presencia de algunos combatientes voluntarios andaluces que visten atuendos y típicos sombreros de esta zona de España, indican claramente que se hallan en la zona de Cerro Muriano (Córdoba), concretamente en la mencionada Finca de Villa Alicia, un área clave para tratar de evitar cualquier intento de conquista del pueblo por parte de las tropas franquistas ubicadas en Córdoba capital (a 16 km de distancia en dirección sur), ya que este terreno se halla en plena zona de posible maniobra envolvente integral por parte de los temidos tabors de regulares del coronel Sáenz de Buruaga, partiendo de la falda norte de la Loma de Las Malagueñas y extendiendo su acción a través de la Finca de Villa Alicia, adyacente a la vertiente norte de la cota Torreárboles, con lo que intentarán caer sobre la retaguardia de los milicianos que defienden ambos vértices, mientras éstos se hallen luchando contra otras tropas franquistas que atacarán frontalmente ambos cerros a través de su vertiente sur.
Mapa de la zona mostrando Torreárboles, Las Malagueñas, la Finca de Villa Alicia y el pueblo de Cerro Muriano.
La fotografía clave para la identificación ha sido una en la que se aprecia a siete milicianos durmiendo, muy próximos entre sí y uno de los cuales aparece tumbado boca arriba en la mitad izquierda de la imagen, con su fusil Mauser modelo 1916 calibre 7 x 57 mm descansando sobre su axila izquierda, mientras su cabeza descansa sobre sus manos. Este miliciano lleva además sobre su costado izquierdo una pequeña cartera de cuero oscura bajo la cual se aprecia una bolsa rectangular de color claro.Y sus piernas no están extendidas longitudinalmente sobre el suelo, sino dobladas en ángulo.
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
En esta fotografía se aprecian los troncos de dos encinas de la Finca de Villa Alicia, es el suelo de la misma, mayormente llano en toda su extensión, y al fondo a la izquierda se aprecian otros dos milicianos durmiendo y un tercero que se halla de pie, y parece estar algo inclinado hacia el suelo, hablando con otro miliciano más que está echado sobre el mismo.
La finca está repleta de milicianos - la mayoría de ellos alcoyanos-, algunos extremadamente jóvenes (se aprecia claramente en varias de las fotografías a distintos muchachos con edades entre 14 y 17 años aproximadamente).
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Capa les fotografía mientras duermen, pero desde luego, no creemos que estas imágenes correspondan a momentos posteriores a batalla o combate.
Estos milicianos están en la zona de Cerro Muriano desde aproximadamente el 10 de Agosto de 1936, ya que tal y como descubrió D. Francisco Moreno Gómez a mediados de los años ochenta, forman parte de la columna alcoyana (compuesta por 534 militares del Regimiento de Infantería de Vizcaya nº 12 - con guarnición en Alcoy- y 687 milicianos alcoyanos anarquistas) que salió de Alcoy (Alicante) el 7 de Agosto de 1936 y al llegar a Pedro Abad (Córdoba) el día 9 de Agosto de 1936, se dividió en dos, marchando una parte a Espejo al mando del teniente Roberto García y otra a Cerro Muriano, al mando del alférez Melquíades Valiente y Enrique Vañó Nicomedes como jefe de milicias, llegando ambos contingentes a sendos pueblos durante la tercera semana de Agosto de 1936.
Creemos que estas imágenes de milicianos durmiendo no fueron captadas por Capa el 5 de Septiembre de 1936, sino el 2 ó el 3 de Septiembre de 1936, en la Finca de Villa Alicia (Cerro Muriano), dos o tres días antes del ataque de las tres columnas franquistas bajo el mando global del general Varela sobre Las Malagueñas (5 de Septiembre de 1936), Torreárboles (5 de Septiembre de 1936) y el propio pueblo de Cerro Muriano (bombardeado el 5 de Septiembre de 1936 y cuya captura definitiva tendría lugar el día 6 de Septiembre de 1936 por la mañana).
Ello revelaría que a diferencia de Hans Namuth, Georg Reisner, Franz Borkenau y Clemente Cimorra (que llegaron a Cerro Muriano el 5 de Septiembre de 1936), Capa y Gerda Taro llevaban varios días en este pueblo de la sierra norte cordobesa y sus alrededores, lo cual explicaría que al conocer ya bien la zona y haber estado en contacto con los milicianos y mandos republicanos desde aproximadamente tres días antes, hicieron fotos en diferentes lugares de la zona de Cerro Muriano (Las Malagueñas, la Finca de Villa Alicia, el área de Lavaderos y Fundiciones de la Córdoba Copper Company, el casco urbano de Cerro Muriano, la salida norte del pueblo, las proximidades de la Estación de Tren de Obejo, las inmediaciones del pueblo de El Vacar, etc), mientras que Hans Namuth y Georg Reisner (que llegaron a Cerro Muriano el día 5 de Septiembre de 1936) únicamente hicieron fotografías a la entrada norte del pueblo de refugiados que huían atemorizados del bombardeo franquista del pueblo.
Mapa de la zona mostrando Las Malagueñas, Torreárboles, la Finca de Villa Alicia, el pueblo de Cerro Muriano, el Cerro de la Coja, la Estación de Tren de Obejo y El Vacar.
Así pues, los rumores que se habían extendido en Montoro sobre un ataque republicano que se estaba preparando contra Córdoba capital eran totalmente falsos, fruto de la propaganda (algo común en ambos bandos), y la realidad era que los oficiales republicanos que se hallaban en el puesto de mando avanzado en la Mansión de Las Malagueñas (comandantes Juan Bernal, Balibrea, Armentia y Aviraneta) así como el capitán Castañeda (que se hallaba en la Finca de Villa Alicia) sabían desde aproximadamente el 1 de Septiembre de 1936 que las tropas franquistas iban a atacarles pronto, intentando liberar de presión a Córdoba capital, que se hallaba en poder del General Varela.
Así pues, los milicianos alcoyanos y andaluces durmiendo sobre el suelo que aparecen en estas 23 fotografías hechas por Capa, están en la Finca de Villa Alicia (Cerro Muriano) desde aproximadamente dos semanas y media antes, llevando siempre consigo sus fusiles, cantimploras, platos para comida, cartucheras con munición, mantas para dormir, etc.
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Copyright Texto and y Fotos Indicadas: José Manuel Serrano Esparza. LHSA
Inscrito en el Registro Territorial de la Propiedad Intelectual de Madrid.
Otros artículos sobre Robert Capa y Gerda Taro en Cerro Muriano:
Cerro Muriano: Descubierta y Ubicada una Nueva Fotografía hecha por Robert Capa el 5 de Septiembre de 1936: Momentos de Premuerte (I I)
Gerda Taro: Centenario de su Nacimiento e Identificación en una Fotografía Hecha el 5 de Septiembre de 1936 en la Zona de Cerro Muriano
Cerro Muriano: Identificación y Ubicación de Cinco Fotografías Más Hechas por Capa y Taro y aparecidas en el Illustrated London News del 24/10/1936
Descubierta la Ubicación de Tres Fotografías Más Hechas por Robert Capa en Cerro Muriano y sus Proximidades
Dos Fotografías Más Hechas por Gerda Taro en Cerro Muriano y Desconocidas hasta Ahora, Descubiertas y Ubicadas: Momentos de Premuerte
Cerro Muriano: Hallada y Ubicada una Nueva Fotografía Hecha por Capa o Gerda Taro el 5 de Septiembre de 1936
viernes, 2 de septiembre de 2011
CERRO MURIANO 75TH ANNIVERSARY ( I ): CAPA AND TARO ARRIVED TWO OR THREE DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 5, 1936
Text and Indicated Pictures: José Manuel Serrano Esparza
Throughout the many decades of research on Robert Capa and Gerda Taro´s stay in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba), it was believed that both of them had arrived at such village of the north mountain range of Córdoba during the morning of September 5, 1936, on an offical press car coming from Montoro, where was the Republican headquarters in Andalucia under the command of General Miaja.
But the study we have made of 23 photographs made by Robert Capa, included in The Mexican Suitcase, unknown till now and discovered by the ICP of New York on opening one of the three boxes and in which appear different Republican militiamen sleeping on the floor, has made posssible that elrectanguloenlamano.blogspot.com discovers that Capa and Taro didn´t arrive at Cerro Muriano on September 5, 1936, but two or three days before, living with the militiamen (along with the regular Republican soldiers and some officers loyal to the Republic) in various zones of the Finca of Villa Alicia (located aproximately 1 km in the southeast of the village), Torreárboles Hill, Las malagueñas Hill, Cerro Muriano village, the area of foundries and washeries of the Córdoba Copper Company, the old quarter of the Guardia Civil, the Cerro de la Coja, etc.
They are 23 pictures made by Capa with his chromed Leica III (Model F 1933-1939) and non coated Summar 5 cm f/2 lens to different militiamen who are lying resting on the ground of a zone of the Finca of Villa Alicia, near its main entrance, which - in the same way as the rest of it - is full of oak trees under whose shadow many of them sleep deeply.
Photo: José Manuel Serrano Esparza
The orography of the ground, the clothes used by the militiamen - most of them from Alcoy, Alicante-, attired with CNT overalls and caps, along with the presence of some Andalusian voluntary combatants clad in typical garments and hats from this region of Spain, clearly indicate that they are in Cerro Muriano area, specifically in the aforementioned Finca of Villa Alicia, a key zone to try to avoid any attempt of conquest of the village of Cerro Muriano by the Francoist troops located in Córdoba City (at a distance of 16 km in south direction), because this terrain is in full trajectory of a highly probable integral encircling manoeuver made by the feared coronel Sáenz de Buruaga Moroccan tabors of Regulares, beginning from the north foothill of Las Malagueñas knoll and spreading their action through the Finca of Villa Alicia, adjacent to the north side of Torreárboles Hill, in such a way, that they will attempt to fall on the rearguard of the militiamen defending both hills, while the latter are fighting against other Francoist troops which will be frontally attacking both knolls through their south slope.
Map of the area showing Torreárboles, Finca of Villa Alicia, Las Malagueñas and Cerro Muriano village.
The key photograph for the location has been one in which you can see seven militiamen sleeping on the ground, very close one another. One of them appears lying upwards on the left half of the image, with his 7 x 57 mm Mosquetón Mauser 1916 Model leaned on his left armpit, while his head rests on his hands. Besides, this militiaman wears on his left side a little dark leather bag, under which there´s another clear colour rectangular bag featuring, more elongated and thinner, that features a bit larger size. The legs of this civil fighter are not stretched on the floor, but folded in angle.
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
In this picture you can see the trunks of two oak trees of the Finca of Villa Alicia. It is the same ground, mostly flat in its extension, and in the left background, can be glimpsed two militiamen and a third one being standing, who seems to be somewhat bent towards the soil, talking to a further militiaman who is lying on it. The Finca of Villa Alicia is full of militiamen - most of them Alcoyanos - , some extremely young (in some of the pictures can be seen different boys being approximately between 14 and 17 years old).
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Capa photographs them while they sleep, but we don´t think that these images show moments after any battle or combat.
These militiamen have been in Cerro Muriano area since August 10 1936, because such as was discovered by Francisco Moreno Gómez in mid eighties of the XX Century, they are part of the Alcoy Column (made up by 534 militiamen of the Infantry Regiment Vizcaya nº 12 - with garrison in Alcoy- and 687 anarchist militiamen from Alcoy) which went out of Alcoy (Alicante) on August 7, 1936 and on arriving at Pedro Abad (Córdoba) on August 9, 1936, split into two groups, one of them marching towards Espejo (Córdoba) under the command of lieutenant Roberto García and the other one going to Cerro Muriano (Córdoba), under the command of the second lieutenant Melquíades Valiente and Enrique Vañó Nicomedes as chief of militiamen, with the two columns arriving at their respective Cordoban villages during the third week of August of 1936.
We do believe that these images of militiamen sleeping on the ground, were not taken by Capa on September 5, 1936, but on September 2 or 3, 1936, in the Finca of Villa Alicia (Cerro Muriano), two or three days before the attack of the three Francoist columns under the global command of General Varela on Las Malagueñas Hill (September 5, 1936), Torreárboles Hill (September 5, 1936), and Cerro Muriano village (bombed on September 5, 1936 and whose definitive capture would happen early in the morning of September 6, 1936.
It would reveal that unlike Hans Namuth, Georg Reisner, Franz Borkenau and Clemente Cimorra (who arrived at Cerro Muriano on September 5, 1936), Capa and Gerda Taro had been in this village of the Córdoba north mountain range and its surroundings for some days, which would explian that on knowing already well the zone and having been in contact with both the militiamen and the Republican high commanders since approximately three days before, they made pictures of different places of the area of Cerro Muriano (Las Malagueñas, Finca of Villa Alicia, the zone of Washeries and Foundries of the Córdoba Copper Company, Cerro Muriano village streets, the north exit of the village, the surroundings of the Obejo Train Station and El Vacar following the Córdoba-Almorchón railways track, etc), while Hans Namuth and Georg Reisner (who arrived at Cerro Muriano on September 5, 1936, around 15:30 h in the afternoon), only made photographs in the north exit to Cerro Muriano to frightened refugees escaping from the Francoist air attack on the village.
Map of the area showing Torreárboles, Finca of Villa Alicia, Las Malagueñas, Cerro Muriano village, Obejo Train Station and El Vacar.
This way, the rumours which had spread in Montoro about an impending Republican attack which was being prepared against Córdoba City were utterly false, fruit of the propaganda (something common in both sides), and reality was that the Republican officers being on the advanced command post in the Mansión de Las Malagueñas -a very beautiful little countryside big house on top of the hill bearing the same name- (majors Juan Bernal, Balibrea, Armentia and Aviraneta) together with captain Castañeda (who was in the Finca of Villa Alicia) had known since roughly September 1, 1936 that the Francoist troops were going to attack them soon, trying to free Córdoba City, under the rule of General Varela, from the pressure of a lot of militiamen located in Cerro Muriano area, only 16 km in the north of the city.
Therefore, the Alcoy and Andalusian militiamen sleeping on the ground appearing in these 23 pictures made by Capa, have been in the Finca of Villa Alicia (Cerro Muriano) for approximately two weeks and a half, always taking with them their rifles, canteens, dishes for food, ammunition poaches, blankets for sleeping at night, etc.
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Copyright Text and Indicated Pictures: José Manuel Serrano Esparza. LHSA
Inscribed in the Territorial Registry of the Intellectual Property of Madrid
Other articles on Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in Cerro Muriano:
Cerro Muriano. Discovered and Located a New Photograph Made by Robert Capa on September 5, 1936. Moments of PreDeath ( I I )
Gerda Taro: Centenary of Her Birth and Identification on a September 5, 1936 Picture Made in Cerro Muriano Area
Cerro Muriano: Identification and Location of Five More Photographs Made by Capa and Taro and Appeared in the 24/10/1936 Illustrated London News
Three More Pictures Made by Robert Capa in Cerro Muriano Area and Its Surroundings Located
Two More Pictures Made by Gerda Taro in Cerro Muriano and Unknown Till Now Discovered and Located: Moments of PreDeath
Cerro Muriano: A New Photograph Made by Capa or Gerda Taro on September 5, 1936 Found and Located
Throughout the many decades of research on Robert Capa and Gerda Taro´s stay in Cerro Muriano (Córdoba), it was believed that both of them had arrived at such village of the north mountain range of Córdoba during the morning of September 5, 1936, on an offical press car coming from Montoro, where was the Republican headquarters in Andalucia under the command of General Miaja.
But the study we have made of 23 photographs made by Robert Capa, included in The Mexican Suitcase, unknown till now and discovered by the ICP of New York on opening one of the three boxes and in which appear different Republican militiamen sleeping on the floor, has made posssible that elrectanguloenlamano.blogspot.com discovers that Capa and Taro didn´t arrive at Cerro Muriano on September 5, 1936, but two or three days before, living with the militiamen (along with the regular Republican soldiers and some officers loyal to the Republic) in various zones of the Finca of Villa Alicia (located aproximately 1 km in the southeast of the village), Torreárboles Hill, Las malagueñas Hill, Cerro Muriano village, the area of foundries and washeries of the Córdoba Copper Company, the old quarter of the Guardia Civil, the Cerro de la Coja, etc.
They are 23 pictures made by Capa with his chromed Leica III (Model F 1933-1939) and non coated Summar 5 cm f/2 lens to different militiamen who are lying resting on the ground of a zone of the Finca of Villa Alicia, near its main entrance, which - in the same way as the rest of it - is full of oak trees under whose shadow many of them sleep deeply.
Photo: José Manuel Serrano Esparza
The orography of the ground, the clothes used by the militiamen - most of them from Alcoy, Alicante-, attired with CNT overalls and caps, along with the presence of some Andalusian voluntary combatants clad in typical garments and hats from this region of Spain, clearly indicate that they are in Cerro Muriano area, specifically in the aforementioned Finca of Villa Alicia, a key zone to try to avoid any attempt of conquest of the village of Cerro Muriano by the Francoist troops located in Córdoba City (at a distance of 16 km in south direction), because this terrain is in full trajectory of a highly probable integral encircling manoeuver made by the feared coronel Sáenz de Buruaga Moroccan tabors of Regulares, beginning from the north foothill of Las Malagueñas knoll and spreading their action through the Finca of Villa Alicia, adjacent to the north side of Torreárboles Hill, in such a way, that they will attempt to fall on the rearguard of the militiamen defending both hills, while the latter are fighting against other Francoist troops which will be frontally attacking both knolls through their south slope.
Map of the area showing Torreárboles, Finca of Villa Alicia, Las Malagueñas and Cerro Muriano village.
The key photograph for the location has been one in which you can see seven militiamen sleeping on the ground, very close one another. One of them appears lying upwards on the left half of the image, with his 7 x 57 mm Mosquetón Mauser 1916 Model leaned on his left armpit, while his head rests on his hands. Besides, this militiaman wears on his left side a little dark leather bag, under which there´s another clear colour rectangular bag featuring, more elongated and thinner, that features a bit larger size. The legs of this civil fighter are not stretched on the floor, but folded in angle.
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
In this picture you can see the trunks of two oak trees of the Finca of Villa Alicia. It is the same ground, mostly flat in its extension, and in the left background, can be glimpsed two militiamen and a third one being standing, who seems to be somewhat bent towards the soil, talking to a further militiaman who is lying on it. The Finca of Villa Alicia is full of militiamen - most of them Alcoyanos - , some extremely young (in some of the pictures can be seen different boys being approximately between 14 and 17 years old).
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Capa photographs them while they sleep, but we don´t think that these images show moments after any battle or combat.
These militiamen have been in Cerro Muriano area since August 10 1936, because such as was discovered by Francisco Moreno Gómez in mid eighties of the XX Century, they are part of the Alcoy Column (made up by 534 militiamen of the Infantry Regiment Vizcaya nº 12 - with garrison in Alcoy- and 687 anarchist militiamen from Alcoy) which went out of Alcoy (Alicante) on August 7, 1936 and on arriving at Pedro Abad (Córdoba) on August 9, 1936, split into two groups, one of them marching towards Espejo (Córdoba) under the command of lieutenant Roberto García and the other one going to Cerro Muriano (Córdoba), under the command of the second lieutenant Melquíades Valiente and Enrique Vañó Nicomedes as chief of militiamen, with the two columns arriving at their respective Cordoban villages during the third week of August of 1936.
We do believe that these images of militiamen sleeping on the ground, were not taken by Capa on September 5, 1936, but on September 2 or 3, 1936, in the Finca of Villa Alicia (Cerro Muriano), two or three days before the attack of the three Francoist columns under the global command of General Varela on Las Malagueñas Hill (September 5, 1936), Torreárboles Hill (September 5, 1936), and Cerro Muriano village (bombed on September 5, 1936 and whose definitive capture would happen early in the morning of September 6, 1936.
It would reveal that unlike Hans Namuth, Georg Reisner, Franz Borkenau and Clemente Cimorra (who arrived at Cerro Muriano on September 5, 1936), Capa and Gerda Taro had been in this village of the Córdoba north mountain range and its surroundings for some days, which would explian that on knowing already well the zone and having been in contact with both the militiamen and the Republican high commanders since approximately three days before, they made pictures of different places of the area of Cerro Muriano (Las Malagueñas, Finca of Villa Alicia, the zone of Washeries and Foundries of the Córdoba Copper Company, Cerro Muriano village streets, the north exit of the village, the surroundings of the Obejo Train Station and El Vacar following the Córdoba-Almorchón railways track, etc), while Hans Namuth and Georg Reisner (who arrived at Cerro Muriano on September 5, 1936, around 15:30 h in the afternoon), only made photographs in the north exit to Cerro Muriano to frightened refugees escaping from the Francoist air attack on the village.
Map of the area showing Torreárboles, Finca of Villa Alicia, Las Malagueñas, Cerro Muriano village, Obejo Train Station and El Vacar.
This way, the rumours which had spread in Montoro about an impending Republican attack which was being prepared against Córdoba City were utterly false, fruit of the propaganda (something common in both sides), and reality was that the Republican officers being on the advanced command post in the Mansión de Las Malagueñas -a very beautiful little countryside big house on top of the hill bearing the same name- (majors Juan Bernal, Balibrea, Armentia and Aviraneta) together with captain Castañeda (who was in the Finca of Villa Alicia) had known since roughly September 1, 1936 that the Francoist troops were going to attack them soon, trying to free Córdoba City, under the rule of General Varela, from the pressure of a lot of militiamen located in Cerro Muriano area, only 16 km in the north of the city.
Therefore, the Alcoy and Andalusian militiamen sleeping on the ground appearing in these 23 pictures made by Capa, have been in the Finca of Villa Alicia (Cerro Muriano) for approximately two weeks and a half, always taking with them their rifles, canteens, dishes for food, ammunition poaches, blankets for sleeping at night, etc.
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Photo: Robert Capa. © ICP New York
Copyright Text and Indicated Pictures: José Manuel Serrano Esparza. LHSA
Inscribed in the Territorial Registry of the Intellectual Property of Madrid
Other articles on Robert Capa and Gerda Taro in Cerro Muriano:
Cerro Muriano. Discovered and Located a New Photograph Made by Robert Capa on September 5, 1936. Moments of PreDeath ( I I )
Gerda Taro: Centenary of Her Birth and Identification on a September 5, 1936 Picture Made in Cerro Muriano Area
Cerro Muriano: Identification and Location of Five More Photographs Made by Capa and Taro and Appeared in the 24/10/1936 Illustrated London News
Three More Pictures Made by Robert Capa in Cerro Muriano Area and Its Surroundings Located
Two More Pictures Made by Gerda Taro in Cerro Muriano and Unknown Till Now Discovered and Located: Moments of PreDeath
Cerro Muriano: A New Photograph Made by Capa or Gerda Taro on September 5, 1936 Found and Located
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