Barbastro

The hospital in Barbastro was very crowded, the beds so close together that they were almost touching.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

How about a Spanish saint, such St. Josemaria Escriva, who was born in Barbastro, Spain?

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How about a Spanish saint, such St. Josemaria Escriva, who was born in Barbastro, Spain?

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By the evening enough sick and wounded had trickled in to make up a few ambulance-loads, and they sent us on to Barbastro.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

As usual they bandied one to and fro from hospital to hospitalSietamo, Barbastro, Monzon, then back to Sietamo to get my discharge stamped, then down the line again via Barbastro and Leridaand the convergence of troops on Huesca had monopolized all the transport and disorganized everything.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

The train, already full of militiamen when it left Barbastro, was invaded by more and more peasants at every station on the line; peasants with bundles of vegetables, with terrified fowls which they carried head-downwards, with sacks which looped and writhed all over the floor and were discovered to be full of live rabbitsfinally with a quite considerable flock of sheep which were driven into the compartments and wedged into every empty space.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

We slept a few hours in a barn in Monflorite, jumped a lorry in the small hours, caught the five o’clock train at Barbastro, andhaving the luck to connect with a fast train at Leridawere in Barcelona by three o’clock in the afternoon of the 26th.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

I had a day to put in to Barbastro, for there was only one train a day.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

They were kept hanging about at Sietamo, Barbastro, Monzon, Lerida, and other places, and meanwhile they were getting no treatment except an occasional clean bandage, sometimes not even that.

Homage to Catalonia 1938

The hospitals at Sietamo were hurriedly constructed wooden huts where the wounded were, as a rule, only kept for a few hours before being sent on to Barbastro or Lerida.

Homage to Catalonia 1938