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1987 Hipercor bombing
tourist highlight 1987 Hipercor bombing · Barcelona, Spain · 1987-06-19
Car bomb attack by the Basque separatist organisation ETA in 1987 at the Hipercor shopping centre in Barcelona.
The record
| Date | 1987-06-19 |
|---|---|
| Place | 1987 Hipercor bombing, Barcelona, Spain |
| Coordinates | 41.4281, 2.18556 (landmark-level precision) |
| Scope | World-historic |
| Sources | Wikidata Q58412 |
| Added | 2026-08-20 · source: wikidata |
Coordinates are given at landmark level. A landmark-level coordinate points at the structure; a city-level one points at the settlement, not at a parcel.
Finding photographs
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- Wikimedia Commons — freely licensed images, with the licence stated on every file. This is the only source we republish from.
- The reference article — its own illustrations, and its citations to archives.
- Image search filtered to reusable licences — useful for tracing which institution holds a picture.
- National and municipal archives of Spain, and the picture desks of newspapers published there at the time.
Check the licence before you reuse anything. A photograph being online, or being old, does not make it free; in most countries a 1960s press photograph is still in copyright.
Footage
Newsreel and archive film of events like this often survives. Search YouTube for this event If you find good footage, send us the link and we will attach it to this page.
Time layers within the surrounding city
One place, several moments in time. This location has 14 recorded time layers between 1929 and 1987 — slide through them:
- 1929 — 1929 Barcelona International Exposition
- 1951 — 1951 Spanish Grand Prix
- 1954 — 1954 Spanish Grand Prix
- 1955 — 1955 Mediterranean Games
- 1963 — Museu Picasso
- 1969 — 1969 Spanish Grand Prix
- 1970 — 1970 European Aquatics Championships
- 1971 — Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Trophy Play-Off
- 1973 — EuroBasket 1973
- 1975 — Fundació Joan Miró
- 1975 — 1975 Spanish Grand Prix
- 1978 — Scala case
- 1984 — 1984 UCI Road World Championships
- 1987 — 1987 Hipercor bombing this page
Harvested from a regional source. This entry came out of Wikidata Q58412 rather than being written here, which is why it is short and why it is marked as needing a check. It is published as a lead for someone who knows the place: fill it in.
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