The Generalitat de Catalunya has closed without results the third archaeological intervention in Llavorsí to locate the Aidí Inn mass grave, where historical documentation places the remains of nine civilians executed in May 1938. The excavation, directed by the Directorate General for Democratic Memory, was carried out between April 13 and 24, 2026.
The operation arrived after new documentary investigations, the review of previous hypotheses, and the delimitation of a new work area. Despite this new approach, archaeologists have not found human remains linked to the mass grave being sought at this point in Pallars Sobirà.
The third excavation in Llavorsí also did not find the Aidí Inn's mass grave
The works were carried out simultaneously with another operation in La Guingueta de Àneu, focused on locating the El Prat del Rector mass grave. In the case of Llavorsí, the intervention was considered closed without being able to confirm the exact location of the burial.
The Ministry of Justice and Democratic Quality maintains that the Hostal de Aidí is one of the most relevant spaces of democratic memory in Catalonia due to the gravity of the documented events and the impact it still retains.
The lack of findings comes after three archaeological campaigns in the area. The objective remained to locate the remains of nine neighbors murdered in the vicinity of the hostel, an enclave associated with Francoist repression in Pallars Sobirà.
The documentation places the murder of nine civilians in May 1938
Historical archives record the execution without prior trial of 67 civilians from the region in reprisal for republican guerrilla actions. Within that sequence, the episode that centers the search in Llavorsí dates back to May 23 and 24, 1938.
Those days, nine people were detained, transferred, tortured, and murdered in the vicinity of Hostal de Aidí. The archaeological intervention aimed to verify on the ground a location that the documentation has not allowed to be fixed with sufficient precision.
At the same time, the Directorate General of Democratic Memory carried out another operation between April 13 and 24, 2026, in La Guingueta de Àneu to search for the El Prat del Rector mass grave, as part of the same work to recover spaces linked to repression in Pallars Sobirà.
Historical documentation records that 67 civilians from Pallars Sobirà were executed without prior trial, and places between May 23 and 24, 1938, the detention, transfer, torture, and murder of the nine people sought in the vicinity of the Hostal de Aidí.