Locus amoenus, locus terribilis. El campamento de prisioneros del Prado de la Zarza (Guadalajara), 1938-1939

A synthesis of the results from the archaeological intervention and research in primary sources at the Prado de la Zarza prisoner camp (Cortes de Tajuña, Alcolea del Pinar, Guadalajara) is presented below. This site of repression was established in 1938 as a camp for one of the Labor Battalions (Batallones de Trabajadores, BBTT) instituted by the Francoist army and remained in operation until the spring of 1939. The work, a continuation of a general project on the materiality of the concentration camp network in the province of Guadalajara, aimed to clarify data regarding the living conditions of the prisoners; the distribution, morphology, and uses of the different structures that made up the camp; as well as to establish connections with other similar cases already studied and identify potential general characteristics of such spaces.