AGLA Guerrilla Interpretation Centre

A village turned classroom

The La Gavilla Verde association began in 1998 and has worked on memory, local culture, the environment and rural life for twenty-five years. Its «El Maquis en Santa Cruz de Moya. Crónica rural de la guerrilla española» (the maquis in Santa Cruz de Moya: a rural chronicle of the Spanish guerrilla) events have turned Santa Cruz de Moya into an open classroom for a few days each year, reaching audiences within and beyond Spain. It has twinned the village with Prayols in France, home to the monument to Spanish guerrillas.

The centre

The AGLA Guerrilla Interpretation Centre preserves the archives and materials the association has gathered over these years and also hosts activities. It opened on 5 October 2024.

An archive staying in the village

In July 2026 La Gavilla Verde and the University of Castilla-La Mancha signed an agreement to preserve, study and share the centre’s collection. According to its president, the first events took place in 2000, aiming to gather information and give voice to guerrillas who felt forgotten; they produced recordings, papers and documents, including over two hundred oral testimonies. Much remains to organise and classify. The association wanted the archive to remain in Santa Cruz de Moya so researchers would come to where events happened. They hope the agreement will produce theses and new lines of study, which do not yet exist.

Plan your visit

Before you travel

There are no published opening times: ask the association or town hall.

Combine with

Cerro Moreno, the camp attacked in 1949, and The guerrilla in the Serranía.