Our students in Grade 4 (proffessional) have carried out an activy on historical memory in English in Hemingway Street. They have also recorded a video with all the stuff they had been working with previously.

Hemingway Street in Tortosa has become the greatest example for recovering historical memory. It is surrounded of both highly literary and cultural matters.

To start with, the wide long Cervantes Street, whose name pays tribute to one of the greatest writers in history, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. It used to be the most popular promenade for young people during decades. Also, Despuig Street, which pays tribute this time to the best writer of the Catalan Renassaince, who was born and lived in this town, Cristòfor Despuig.

Right now we are just behind the former Femina cinema, which reminds us of a time when in the town there were up to 5 different cinemas. Besides, we should have some words to remember Rafel Sàlvia, who was one of the most famous filmmakers in the 1950s and 1960s in the state.

Hemingway Street is quite narrow but full of memory, of literature, of cultural matters. First of all, we can see several panels to pay tribute to Ernest Hemingway, Nobel Prize and Putlitzer writer, who was a very famous war reporter. He published two novels about wars which are extremely famous: A Farewell to arms (about his experiences in Italy during World war 1) and For whom the bell tolls (a portray of his feelings during the Civil war).

He was in Tortosa in April 1938, when the town suffered the worst air strikes. He wrote five articles about his experiences in the Ebro Delta and the bombings of Tortosa. Last but not least, he wrote an emotive tale, The old man at the bridge, which explains the tragic story of an old man from La Ràpita who used to take care of animals and had to abandon them because of the artillery.

Here we can see refuge number 4, one of the twenty aerial shelters we can find in town, and the longest and biggest one. Finally, we can see this spectacular mural which shows the destruction of Tortosa, the Catalan Gernika, by the nazi Condor legion.