El maestro que prometió el mar

Antoni Benaiges, a teacher from Mont-roig del Camp, Tarragona, was assigned to the Bañuelos de Bureba National Mixed School, a small town in the province of Burgos, in 1934. Thanks to a pioneering and revolutionary teaching methodology for the time, based on the active participation of children and the use of printing, he began to transform the lives of his students and the town. At the end of July 1936, the teacher disappeared. For more than 75 years, his work and personality remained in the private memories of his former students and his family, until, in August 2010, at the edge of a mass grave, a resident of Bañuelos brought to light the figure of the teacher murdered in 1936 and the moving story of a promise that could not be kept.