The Ibis hotel on Avenida Kansas City in Sevilla may look like your average hotel. It has hot showers, friendly staff and cold, if indifferent, beer. What makes this hotel more memorable is that it comes with a built in Crime scene.
Every year on the 28th of February, all of Andalusia celebrates Andalusia Day and when they do they usually honour the father of the Andalusian idea, Blas Infante. Who was murdered almost a century ago, on what is now the Ibis parking lot and probably buried in the largest mass grave of Spain, Pico Reja in Sevilla.
Who was Blas Infante? Why did his killer, general Quiepo de Llano want him dead so badly that he was on his hitlist twice? And what happened after Infante died, because his remains have never been recovered...
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The walk from the crime scene at the Ibis Hotel to the Pico Reja mass grave is one of the walks from my upcoming book, Camino Negro, A Hiker's Guide to Spain's Historic Crime Scenes. Available from the end of April.
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