Few metres of the centre of interpretation 115 Days of Corbera d'Ebre, the local collector Pere Sanz inaugurated in the year 2005 a private museum with part of his enormous bottom of 3.000 pieces of the Spanish civil war. The museum offers a complete sample and selected of the armament used during the war, rifles, pomegranates, bullets, mortars, obuses or bombs of aviation. Also it is very notable his sample of more than a ten of mannequins dressed with uniforms of units of the two armies. The sample complements  with an exhibition of helmets, insignia, systems of communication, ancient cameras, leaflets of propaganda, standards, dishes to eat customised by the soldiers or tins of sardines, one of the main foods of the diet of the soldiers.

One of the star pieces of the museum is an antiaircraft battery Oerlikon of 20 millimetres. The republican army had during the spanish civil war about a hundred of these batteries designed by the german R.Becker in 1914 and manufactured by the Swiss company W.M.Oerlikon. Also it stands out part of the fuselage of a republican aeroplane knocked down, model Katyuska.

A shop with agricultural products of the village, books on the conflict or pictures with photographies of the villages or some edicts of both sides complete the offer. Good part of the material shows  through a fortnight of showcases.

The museum, that has completed  with five new showcases with several war objects, has of all the permissions and opens his doors in function of the demand. The visitors, in case to find closed the museum, can warn by mobile telephone to Sanz, who had to offer guided visits to the interested people.

The Interview

Interview of Andreu Caralt in the Diari de Tarragona published the day 22 February 2009 to Pere Sanz.

‘Before we found of everything, I have collected a lot of artifacts'

Pere Sanz, 52 years old, is one of the war objects collectors of the battle of the Ebro more experienced of the Terra Alta. Part of his extensive bottom is exposed of permanent way in the museum La Trinxera (The Trench), situated in Corbera d'Ebre and of his property.

.-During how many years has devoted  to look for artifacts of the Spanish Civil War?

.-As a minimum 20 years. I and others collectors did not do it for the money, but by our love to these hobby. I have known collectors of all Spain. Years backwards, we celebrated meetings at the weekends and exchanged us and sold us a lot of objects.

.-It is a business?

.-No. I don't know anyone in the region who believes that these hobby is a business job.

.-20 years backwards,what could you find  into the fields of the Terra Alta?

.-Of everything. People gave me a lot material without I have to looking for it. An agriculturalist offered me helmets, bayonets...And when he did it, he did not give more importance. To the start I found some projectiles in the same surface. When appeared the metal detectors, more people came to Terra Alta  to look for rests. Now,it has arrived a moment when that already they find  few things.

.-Few things?

.-Rests of shrapnel, tins...Today, all the corners are very looked for. Now, you can find some artillery projectiles if, for example, heavy machinery will act in a field of crop.

.-How many pieces you collected?

-.I do not know it, a lot of, is incalculable. In my museum I have a small sample: bombs of aviation, antiaircraft projectiles, mortars of all calibres, pomegranates...All the artillery projectiles are disabled.–A.C.G.