Apr 20, 2021
Vias, France, – After fleeing to France to escape the Spanish Civil War, Amalia Romero’s family eventually managed to build a home on the south coast directly looking out over the Mediterranean.
But today, the sea is gradually gnawing away at their refuge on a coastline that has grown vulnerable to the ravages of climate change.
“It’s a harsh fate after we’ve devoted all our efforts, all our life, to having a roof over our family’s head,” Romero said.
In 1939, she was among the exodus, or Retirada, of nearly half a million Spaniards who fled dictator General Francisco Franco’s forces and crossed the border into France, where many ended up initially in internment camps.
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Lost paradise as Mediterranean edges ever closer to home
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15/04/2021 - 04:59 Amalia Romero, 94, says it took some time to realise that the Mediterranean was creeping ever closer to the plot of land on the southern French coast where her family had found refuge and settled after fleeing the Spanish Civil War Pascal GUYOT AFP 7 min
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After fleeing to France to escape the Spanish Civil War, Amalia Romero s family eventually managed to build a home on the south coast directly looking out over the Mediterranean.
But today, the sea is gradually gnawing away at their refuge on a coastline that has grown vulnerable to the ravages of climate change.
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