'The circus of the boys', the unusual story of a republican utopia in the middle of Francoism

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Those who are of an age will remember it because it was a global phenomenon. Younger people cannot even begin to imagine the unusual and fascinating story of another century, which began in Benposta, just outside Ourense, and reached Madison Square Garden in New York, the Grand Palais in Paris and other venues in Japan, Australia and Latin America. A Republican utopia of children in full Francoism that began as a revolutionary educational projec…

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Once upon a time there was a City of Boys that had mayor, government, supermarket, bar, television or a bank with a currency of its own, which was the crown.This City of Boys, located on the outskirts of the city of Ourense, was designed and created by Father Silva in the middle of the 20th century.The dream of a city different from what existed of boys.In Bemposta they came to live, in the time of splendor between the 70s and 80s, about 400 peo…