Alcalá Will Open to the Public the Anti-Aircraft Shelter Created with the Ruins of a Church

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The ruins of the church of Santa María la Mayor, a temple in which Miguel de Cervantes was baptized and which was destroyed by a fire at the beginning of the Civil War, were reused in 1938 to build an anti-aircraft shelter to protect the Alcalá de Henares from the bombings. Alcalá de Henares City Council has decided to reopen to the public the space that has been closed since the late 1970s. This same week the rehabilitation work and value of th…