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title: 'La Vanguardia, picture page (Barcelona, 13 December 1937): "La Ciudad Universitaria"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-vanguardia-ciudad-universitaria-1937/
description: 'Photo page with two wide pictures of Madrid''s University City under the headline "La Ciudad Universitaria": the Clinical Hospital, with a caption saying…'
section: Collection
---

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# La Vanguardia, picture page (Barcelona, 13 December 1937): "La Ciudad Universitaria"

Photo page with two wide pictures of Madrid's University City under the headline "La Ciudad Universitaria": the Clinical Hospital, with a caption saying the two small round buildings were the operating theatres in which "los fascistas" had machine-gun nests "que nuestra artillería destruyó", and the Agronomy school and the Casa de Velazquez seen from Puerta de Hierro. The tell: the one loaded label (fascists) carries the explanation for the damage; the captions give no dates.

## Text on the object

Original (Spanish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
LA CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA

[upper caption] UNA FOTOGRAFÍA DEL CLÍNICO. EN ELLA PUEDEN VERSE DOS PEQUEÑOS EDIFICIOS CIRCULARES, QUE SON LOS QUIRÓFANOS, Y EN LOS CUALES TENÍAN LOS FASCISTAS SUS NIDOS DE AMETRALLADORAS, QUE NUESTRA ARTILLERÍA DESTRUYÓ.

[lower caption] EL EDIFICIO DE LA ESCUELA DE INGENIEROS AGRÓNOMOS, DE LA CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA. - A LA DERECHA: LA CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ, DESDE LA PARTE DE PUERTA DE HIERRO (FOTOS REPORTAJE)
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
THE UNIVERSITY CITY

[upper caption] A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE CLINICAL HOSPITAL. IN IT ONE CAN SEE TWO SMALL CIRCULAR BUILDINGS, WHICH ARE THE OPERATING THEATRES, AND IN WHICH THE FASCISTS HAD THEIR MACHINE-GUN NESTS, WHICH OUR ARTILLERY DESTROYED.

[lower caption] THE BUILDING OF THE AGRONOMY ENGINEERS' SCHOOL, OF THE UNIVERSITY CITY. - ON THE RIGHT: THE CASA DE VELÁZQUEZ, FROM THE PUERTA DE HIERRO SIDE (PHOTO REPORT)
```

Headline and both captions read from the downsampled image; the word 'ametralladoras' is split across a line break in the original. Translation is literal and not checked by a fluent reader.

[← La Vanguardia, front page (Barcelona, 11 July 1937): "Nuestro avance en los frentes del Centro"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-vanguardia-brunete-avance-1937/) ["Credere Obbedire Combattere": a school group photograph, Mirandola, 1938 →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/credere-obbedire-combattere-mirandola-1938/)

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