Spanish government approves fund to exhume graves at Valley of the Fallen
A total of €665,000 has been approved by the Spanish government for the exhumation and identification of some 33,000 victims of the Spanish Civil War...
Francoism
‘Historic day’ for Spain, as last statue of dictator Franco removed
The 40th anniversary this week of the attempted coup d’état in the Spanish Congress has also coincided with the removal of the last statue of Franco in Spain....
Spain marks 40 years since failed coup d’état, in absence of Juan Carlos I
Spain marked 40 years since a failed military coup on Tuesday, but without the presence of former king Juan Carlos I, whose intervention back in...
Prosecutors investigate anti-Semitic speech at neo-Nazi rally in Madrid
Prosecutors in Spain have opened an investigation into anti-Semitic comments made at a rally held in Madrid last weekend. The incident took place on Saturday...
Spanish state takes over Franco’s ‘summer mansion’ from his heirs
This week the Spanish state finally took possession of a mansion previously ‘owned’ by Francisco Franco and used by his family after his death, following...
Spain drafts bill of ‘Democratic Memory Act’ to redress victims and legacy of Franco regime
The Spanish cabinet has approved a draft bill of the ‘Democratic Memory Act’ to ‘comprehensively redress the victims of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship’,...
Torra demands ‘solemn apology’ from Spain for execution of Lluís Companys
In a televised address on Friday, on the eve of La Diada Nacional de Catalunya (Catalonia’s National Day), the Catalan president Quim Torra asked Spain for...
Court orders Franco’s family to return summer mansion
A court in Galicia has ordered the family of dictator Francisco Franco to hand over the keys to a mansion that it rules was illegally...
Tweet over ‘Spain’s crucial role’ in 1944 liberation of Paris sparks controversy
A tweet from the Spanish government’s Ministry of Justice regarding Spain’s ‘crucial role’ in liberating Paris from the Nazis in 1944 caused a controversy on...
