2-492-211 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Once a grand hotel in Palma, Majorca, Spanish Civil War, c1936. At the start of the war Majorca was a Nationalist stronghold. Republican forces made an amphibious landing on the island on 16 August 1936 but were forced to leave just under a month later, largely due to the Nationalists' superior air power, most of which was provided by Fascist Italy.