Pontes sem fronteiras: memória e solidariedade na região minhota durante a Guerra de Espanha

Abstract

This paper proposes an approach to the significance of the Valença International Bridge in history, starting from the process of founding nation states and especially during the Spanish Civil War. At the same time, it opposes a public memory of the war which, in the context of the conflict and the intensification of repression, told an alternative history through memory. The solidarity given to refugees from the war in this region establishes an identity shaped by a process of political socialisation. The international bridge is, in this sense, a mediating link between history and memory, opening up a range of potentialities for writing history from different perspectives.