10 During the Spanish Civil War and the years that followed, the market square of Sa Pobla and a timber warehouse facing it were the scene of one of the harshest and cruelest repressions the town has ever experienced. Can Garroví—as the timber warehouse was called—and the entire square were surrounded by barbed wire to confine the forced labor battalion assigned to build a railway for military use that was to connect Sa Pobla with Alcúdia. In reality, we had a concentration camp made up of some two hundred soldiers who had been loyal to the Republic. More than prisoners, they lived there for nearly three years as slaves, and the market square was their world and epicenter.

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