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La república independiente de Tazacorte

Tazacorte, La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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La república independiente de Tazacorte

Curiosity · Tazacorte, La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Image of Tazacorte, not of the place itself.

In 1925, shortly before its official separation from Los Llanos de Aridane, a group of townspeople jokingly proclaimed the independence of Tazacorte for three days, an episode that ended with the firing of a Spanish artillery shell and the town's 'surrender'.

1925

Photo: Hans-Peter Balfanz (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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