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Execution of the martyrs of Carral

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Execution of the martyrs of Carral

Historical milestone · Carral, Coruña, A Coruña

Image of Carral, not of the place itself.

Twelve officers of the uprising led by Colonel Miguel Solís were executed in Carral on 26 April 1846, after the defeat of the revolt against the dictatorship of General Narváez, when Isabella II was only thirteen years old; the episode became a symbol of 19th-century Galician provincialism. The revolt, begun on 2 April in Lugo, was crushed on the 23rd at the Battle of Cacheiras; Solís took refuge in the monastery of San Martiño Pinario, and he and his companions were tried in Carral three days later and shot that same evening, the colonel in the churchyard of the church of Paleo and the rest at the Fraga do Rei. Ten years later they were declared beneméritos de la Patria (distinguished patriots), and in 1904 the current monument was erected in the centre of Carral, the work of the architect Juan Álvarez Mendoza.

26 de abril de 1846

Photo: Elisardojm (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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