El laberinto mágico is a project by Julián Barón García that originates from the historical recreations of episodes from the Spanish Civil War held in towns such as Lopera, Fayón, Morata de Tajuña, and Viver. These representations are conceived as scenic actions, straddling the line between the playful and the cultural, with the aim of bringing the battles that took place between 1936 and 1939 closer to generations that have not experienced the war firsthand. In these events, reenactors and the audience merge to condense an imagery derived from cinema and the photographs taken by correspondents during what was the first media war. Julián photographs these events to launch the bombardment of images that composes this book: a visual labyrinth, a time tunnel in which images of a painful past merge with the most superficial symbols of our contemporary culture. A situation that Max Aub summarized through one of the characters in El laberinto mágico, the novelistic cycle about the Spanish war from which this project takes its title: “Spain will never leave the labyrinth because Spain is the labyrinth.