Guernica

I'm not sure whether I'm most interested in this town because I'm a New Yorker, Jill lives in Spain or just history in general.

I saw the Picasso painting at MoMA on a class trip in high school and remember what a big deal it was when they finally returned it to Spain. I saw it again at the Prado's annex across from Retiro Park sometime in mid eighties and then again once it moved to the Reina Sofia. So I've been stalking it for years.

Right after it was painted, Guernica was important because of how it informed the world of how nasty the Spanish civil war, Franco and the axis powers were. It became even more so as a symbol of how new technology was being weaponized against innocent civilians; warning of a genie that couldn't be re-bottled.

Gernika is a nice, working class town in a valley. Not a whole lot of old buildings here, for obvious reasons.