Bunkers on the Serra Grossa (Alicante)

Bunkers on the Serra Grossa

For those of you unfamiliar with the geography of Alicante, the Serra Grossa are a pair of hills which lie directly north of Santa Barbara Castle along the coast towards San Juan. They are bordered by Avienda de Denia and the seafront road between Alicante-San Juan.

Both hills are natural parks and protected areas and have quite a few walking paths arounds and over them, great for excercise and with some superb views.

The lower of the two hills (nearest Alicante) and directly behind the tram station for Plaza Mar 2 shopping center, has two interesting Civil War era bunkers on the seaward side.

Anti-Aircraft Emplacement 

The entire bunker complex consists of a circular gun-pit with an ammunition bunker, about 60 feet of concrete trench (some with conrete top cover) and two small personel shelters/bunkers. The whole site is accessable and has been at some time renovated, it has however fallen into disrepair and poorly treated by local youths - rubbish and graffiti abound. 😝  

Round gun-pit with ammo bunker and covered trench to the rear

Ammo bunker entrance

Inside ammo bunker - yucky 

Looking towards the gun-pit through the covered trench

Turning right out of the covered trench toards the sea

This is a left branch of the seaward trench leading to a personel shelter

Inside the shelter strewn with rubbish 😒

Second personel shelter

Looking back from the access trench

Shelter 2 entrance

Inside - full of rubbish again 😕

Access trench to the rear of the position

War time image of this position which i found on the internet with a 20mm AA gun

Guard/Sentry Post

Situated only a short distance along the path are some steps leading down to this square concrete structure, which due to its exposed position I can only assume was just a sentry post.

The bunker is in a truely sad state of neglect 😠

Further bunkers and stuff I`ve discovered can be found here:

https://baberonwargames.blogspot.com/2023/07/civil-war-era-bunkers.html