Jávea (Xàbia), on Spain's Costa Blanca, has the distinction of being one of the last places to be occupied by Franco's fascists during the final days of the that country's Civil War (1936-1939). But it had seen action much earlier too. Jávea, then just a small fishing village on the Mediterranean coast, was in Republican territory and an airfield with two runways was built close to Camí Cabanes, an obvious target for Nationalist forces aided … [Read more...]
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