Spain`s Guernica marks 80th anniversary of bombing
(Artdaily.org)

Some 200 people gathered at a cemetery in the northern Spanish town of Guernica Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of its bombing by Nazi warplanes during the Spanish civil war. At 4:30 pm (1430 GMT) -- the moment the bombing began 80 years ago -- representatives of victims associations laid floral wreaths at a monument in the Zollo cemetery dedicated to those killed in an attack that inspired Pablo Picasso`s famed `Guernica` painting. `A rain of fire, blood and death fell upon us,` Luis Iriondo, a 94-year-old survivor of the air raid, told the gathering. He also appealed for the end of bombings in Syria and other war zones around the world. Aircraft from Adolph Hitler`s `Condor Legion` sent to Spain to support General Francisco Franco`s nationalist forces carpet-bombed the town on the afternoon of April 26, 1937 for over three hours.