Plaça de Catalunya

This guide to Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona starts with the bullet marks still counted in its stone, and the morning of July 19, 1936, when soldiers marching to seize the city were met by ordinary workers and police fighting them building by building. It follows a local photographer who ran toward the fighting instead of away, and the images that reached readers across Europe weeks later. Look up at the telephone exchange building over the square, one of the fighting's flashpoints.