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Guided tours of the exhibition “On Exodus and Wind: Spanish exile in the Maghreb (1939-1962)” 

November 29, 2024The tours will be given on Friday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe exhibition halls (at Calle Alcalá, 62). The tours will be given on Friday, November 28 and Friday, November 29 at 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Prior registration required.
In Spanish.

The exhibition’s visual curator, Juan Valbuena, is giving two guided tours on November 28 and 29. Don’t miss out: sign up now! 

Along with visual curator Juan Valbuena, discover the story of the thousands of people who had to leave Spain at the end of the Spanish Civil War, finding refuge in the Maghreb region (which includes the former territories of colonial France, today’s Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco).

It is a little known story of exile, told through images taken from 1939 to 1962, crossing through four emotions: fear, indignation, hope and resignation.

Thursday, November 28
Registration for 6:00 p.m.
Registration for 7:00 p.m.

Friday, November 29
Registration for 6:00 p.m.
Registration for 7:00 p.m.
Guided tours of the exhibition “On Exodus and Wind: Spanish exile in the Maghreb (1939-1962)” 
Stanbrook ship full of Spanish exiles in quarantine in the port of Oran (Algeria). April 1939. Unknown archive.

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