Carmen Luna Alcázar (31 August 1888 – 18 September 1936) was a Spanish feminist and anarchist executed by Francoist forces.
After the July 1936 military uprising in Seville, events quickly reached her hometown and sent Luna into hiding with her family.
In 2019, a lookout near Parque del Muro in her home town of Utrera in Andalusia was renamed in Luna's honor.
[4] The couple had four children, Ildefonso, Rafael, Dolores Romero Luna and Antonio, of which three survived to adulthood.
[5][4] Luna lived in a hut near Cortijo de Ulloa in the Andalusian countryside with her family.
[1][7][2] Her daughter Dalia eventually escaped to a Republican area before finally settling in Mallemort, France.
The fallout of this event quickly reached Utrera where a worker was shot and killed by the Guardia Civil.
[5] Following the fall of Utrera to Queipo de Llano's forces on 26 July, Dalia returned to her mother.
Luna, and her children Dalia and Alfonso were terrified of what was happening, eventually seeking refuge at the hacienda of a friend who worked as a foreman.
To protect her children, Peña and Luna left them behind and escape from Utrera and towards Palmar de Troya.
[5] Returning turned out to be a bad decision, as Luna was immediately arrested and put into the local prison.
[1][5][6][8] The prison was located at the Town Hall, in what is now Altozano but was called Plaza de la República.
[4] While she was imprisoned, half her head was shaved and her remaining hair was plaited with purple, red and yellow bows.
[4] She was shot by Nationalist forces at dawn on 18 September 1936 while standing against a wall near the gate of Utrera's municipal cemetery.
[1][7] One of the reason Nationalists wanted Luna dead was so her death would send a message to other activists, to discourage them from speaking out.
[5] In 2019, a lookout near Parque del Muro in her home town of Utrera in Andalusia was renamed in her honor.
She was chosen because she was "a brave and courageous woman, capable of sacrificing her life for ideas that she firmly believed in.