The box of shoes

  • The proclamation

    The proclamation
    The Second Spanish Republic was the democratic regime that existed in Spain between April 14, 1931, the date of its proclamation, replacing the monarchy of Alfonso XIII.
  • Ferran listening news about the new constitution

    Ferran listening news about the new constitution
    The Spanish Constitution of 1931 was approved on December 9, 1931 by the Constituent Cortes, after the Spanish general elections of 1931 that followed the proclamation of the Second Republic, and was in force until the end of the civil war in 1939.
  • The tiet Josep says that with the Republic our life will improve.

    The tiet Josep says that with the Republic our life will improve.
    Some people thought that with the Republic our life would improve.
  • The church and the army are not very happy

    The church and the army are not very happy
    All religious denominations will be considered as Associations subject to a special law. The State, the regions, the provinces and the Municipalities will not maintain, favor or financially assist Churches, Associations and religious Institutions.
  • Happy times at a republican school

    Happy times at a republican school
    The school in republican society was an institution in which those who passed through it were monitored and guarded, in which the social role was selected, or at least legitimized, in which they were indoctrinated and in which they developed skills and abilities.
  • A demonstration supporting the Estatut

    A demonstration supporting the Estatut
    The 1932 Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, also known as the Nuria Statute, was a Spanish law passed during the first biennium of the Second Spanish Republic that granted Catalonia for the first time a Statute of Autonomy that allowed it to have a government and a parliament own.
  • I don't trust in the fascists from Falange

    I don't trust in the fascists from Falange
    Thousands of Europeans were giving up trusting democracy and accepting, in a certain way, that only through the fall of the known world could a new one rise again where neither political and moral corruption nor economic crisis existed.
  • Carme voting for the first time

    Carme voting for the first time
    Women got the right to vote in Spain in 1933 as a result of legal changes made during the Second Spanish Republic.
  • Seems that CEDA will win the elections

    Seems that CEDA will win the elections
    On November 19, 1933, in Spain during the Second Republic, general elections were held. With the discredit of the government and after the dissolution of the republican-socialist coalition that had supported the government of Manuel Azaña, the President of the Republic Niceto Alcalá-Zamora decided to dissolve the Cortes elected in June 1931 and call general elections.
  • Companys and the jailed consellers

    Companys and the jailed consellers
    The former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia Lluis Companys imprisoned in the Modelo prison in Madrid after the events of October 6, 1934.
  • Center of Barcelona

    Center of Barcelona
    On October 6, 1934, the Catalan State within the "Spanish Federal Republic" was proclaimed in Barcelona by the president of the Generalidad de Cataluña, Lluís Companys.
  • We return at voting

    We return at voting
    On February 16 and March 1, 1936, the third and last general elections of the Second Spanish Republic were held in Spain.
  • The uncle Francesc in Melilla

    The uncle Francesc in Melilla
    The military rebellion of Melilla was the first movement of the coup in Spain in July 1936, which meant the start of the Spanish Civil War.