3-053-733 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Civil War in Spain: Fortress of Montjuich, Barcelona, 1873. 'The Carlist invasion of the Basque provinces and Catalonia, in the north of Spain, being unfortunately simultaneous with the revolt of the Intransigentes, or Communist Red Republicans, in the towns of Valencia and Andalusia, the Government at Madrid has its hands quite full of work in repelling these attacks on each side. Although it is prudent not to believe all that is stated in the daily telegrams of the rapid advances made by the Carlists to seize Barcelona, there is enough anxiety concerning the fate of that city to give more than usual interest to our Illustration, which is a view of the fortress of Montjuich. The hill bearing this odd name, which is a corruption of Mons Judaicus, from its having in the Middle Ages been the abode of a Jewish colony, commands Barcelona and the shipping in its port. The fortifications of Montjuich are shaped as an irregular pentagon; its garrison is well provided with casemates and cisterns, and its batteries have all in the town at their mercy, as they proved by a bombardment in 1842. The people of Barcelona have always been regarded as turbulent and prone to insurrection'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.