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Spain plans 480 more events to ‘celebrate recovery of democracy’ following Franco’s death 50 years ago

News Desk20th November 202520th November 2025

20th November 202520th November 202596

Spain’s left-leaning coalition government on Wednesday unveiled an additional 480 commemorative events scheduled for this year to mark both the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s...

Spanish government unveils its plans to remodel controversial Franco monument

News Desk12th November 202518th November 2025

12th November 202518th November 2025674

The Spanish government on Tuesday unveiled plans to overhaul an imposing monument near Madrid that once served as the resting place of dictator Francisco Franco,...

Spanish PM on former king’s memoir: ‘Not one of the books I recommend this Christmas’

News Desk10th November 202517th November 2025

10th November 202517th November 2025497

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said on Sunday that he was ‘surprised’ by certain claims made in the newly published memoirs of the exiled and...

Spain’s disgraced ex-king’s memoir spills secrets on Franco, extramarital affairs & accidentally killing his brother

News Desk5th November 202510th November 2025

5th November 202510th November 20251107

Spain’s disgraced former monarch, Juan Carlos I, has revealed the moment dictator Francisco Franco personally summoned him to name him as his heir – a decision...

Spanish government seeks to speed up the dissolution of Franco foundation

News Desk1st November 20255th November 2025

1st November 20255th November 2025905

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced on Friday that his left-leaning coalition government will speed up efforts to seek the dissolution of the Francisco Franco...

Spanish government to publish a list of Franco-era symbols targeted for removal

News Desk22nd October 202527th October 2025

22nd October 202527th October 2025963

Spain’s left-leaning coalition government plans to release next month an official inventory of monuments and emblems from General Francisco Franco’s dictatorship that are to be...

Events to mark 50 years since Franco’s death commence, yet his legacy still divides Spain

News Desk9th January 202516th January 2025

9th January 202516th January 20252576

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez presided on Wednesday over the first in a year-long series of events to mark 50 years since the death of...

Sánchez visits Francoist mausoleum to learn about civil war exhumations

News Desk5th April 202410th April 2024

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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez visited the imposing Francoist mausoleum outside Madrid on Thursday to learn about the exhumation of 160 Civil War victims, whose...

Court rejects investigating torture claim of trade unionist during Franco era

News Desk13th October 202319th October 2023

13th October 202319th October 20231624

A court in Barcelona this week rejected a claim by a Spanish man who says he was tortured by police during the Franco dictatorship. In an...

Madrid court hears first case of allegations of Franco-era police torture

News Desk15th September 202324th September 2023

15th September 202324th September 20232092

A judge in Spain heard evidence on Friday of alleged torture during the rule of the country’s late dictator Francisco Franco, in what rights groups...

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