Qualla: Corbera d'Ebre https://qualla.com/corbera-d-ebre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/corbera-d-ebre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Corbera d'Ebre https://qualla.com/corbera-d-ebre Corbera d'Ebre: Introduction https://qualla.com/corbera-d-ebre/ Photo credit Juan Emilio Prades Bel, CC BY 4.0. On a hill above the rebuilt town of Corbera d'Ebre, a dead village still stands. Roofless houses, a gutted church, streets that lead nowhere—this is the Poble Vell, the Old Town, and it has been left in ruins on purpose. In the autumn of 1938 the Battle of the Ebro reduced Corbera to rubble. When the fighting finally moved on, the survivors rebuilt their lives on the lower ground but left the shattered upper town exactly as the war had made it: a stone memorial to the longest and bloodiest battle of the Spanish Civil War.

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/corbera-d-ebre-wp/sp23-corbera-debre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Corbera d'Ebre: The Village Left in Ruins https://qualla.com/corbera-d-ebre/ Photo credit Manel Zaera, CC BY-SA 2.0. Corbera d'Ebre had the terrible luck to sit in the path of the Battle of the Ebro, which raged from 25 July to 16 November 1938 across these hills of Terra Alta. The town was destroyed completely. Afterward, its residents rebuilt the lower part and returned to ordinary life, but ...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/corbera-d-ebre-wp/sp23-corbera-debre-the-village-left-in-ruins.mp3 0:06 2 full Corbera d'Ebre: The Longest Battle https://qualla.com/corbera-d-ebre/ Photo credit Manel Zaera, CC BY-SA 2.0. The Battle of the Ebro was the largest and most decisive engagement of the Spanish Civil War, and one of the most ruinous. In late July 1938, six fully equipped Republican divisions crossed the Ebro River in a bold offensive that at first caught Franco's forces off guard. But the...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/corbera-d-ebre-wp/sp23-corbera-debre-the-longest-battle.mp3 0:06 3 full Corbera d'Ebre: The Men from Far Away https://qualla.com/corbera-d-ebre/ Photo credit Manel Zaera, CC BY-SA 2.0. Among those who fought here were volunteers from across the world, drawn to Spain to resist the rise of fascism. At the end of March 1938, the Lincoln-Washington Battalion—American members of the International Brigades—was retreating from Belchite, where it had lost 400 of some 5...

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]]> Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/p/2/3/corbera-d-ebre-wp/sp23-corbera-debre-the-men-from-far-away.mp3 0:06 4 full Corbera d'Ebre: Withdrawal and Memory https://qualla.com/corbera-d-ebre/ Photo credit Manel Zaera, CC BY-SA 2.0. By early September the Lincoln Battalion was back in the vicinity of Corbera, and by late September it was gone. On 21 September 1938, before the League of Nations in Geneva, the Spanish prime minister Juan Negrín announced that the Republic would unilaterally withdraw all its in...

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