Guernica

Guernica, official name Gernika, is a town in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain. The town of Guernica is one part of the municipality of Gernika-Lumo (Spanish: Guernica y Luno, whose population is 16,224 as of 2009.

Guernica is best known ─ among those residing outside the Basque region ─ both as the scene of the April 26, 1937 bombing of Guernica, one of the first aerial bombings, and as the inspiration for Pablo Picasso's painting Guernica, depicting Picasso's outrage at the attack.