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Madrid’s refusal to loan Picasso’s ‘Guernica’ to Bilbao fuels political tensions

News Desk7th April 202613th April 2026

7th April 202613th April 20262201

A growing political and cultural dispute has erupted in Spain over whether Pablo Picasso’s iconic anti-war painting Guernica should be temporarily moved from Madrid to...

Large Civil War air-raid shelter uncovered beneath Barcelona street works

News Desk26th March 202631st March 2026

26th March 202631st March 20261108

Police and archaeologists in Barcelona have uncovered a large Civil War-era air-raid shelter in the Sants–Montjuïc district, after three access points were found during recent...

Spain’s 1981 coup leader Antonio Tejero dies aged 93, on same day files are declassified

News Desk26th February 20262nd March 2026

26th February 20262nd March 20261850

Antonio Tejero Molina, the former Spanish Civil Guard lieutenant colonel who led the failed military coup of 23 February 1981, has died at the age...

Spanish government seeks to speed up the dissolution of Franco foundation

News Desk1st November 20255th November 2025

1st November 20255th November 20251732

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 20252181

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...

Initial forensic work begins to exhume bodies of 128 victims of Civil War

News Desk18th June 202327th June 2023

18th June 202327th June 20233079

Initial forensic work began on Monday to try to exhume the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War, who are among tens of...

Spanish police clash with far-right as fascist party founder re-buried

News Desk24th April 20235th May 2023

24th April 20235th May 20232705

Spanish police clashed with far-right protesters in Madrid on Monday, as the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, a fascist party founder, arrived at...

Spain relocates remains of Francoist general who ordered execution of thousands

News Desk3rd November 202211th November 2022

3rd November 202211th November 20223193

The remains of a Francoist general who is believed to have ordered the shooting of Spain’s most famous poet among thousands of others, were relocated...

Senate approves law that bans support for Franco and seeks to bring ‘justice’ to victims

News Desk6th October 202210th October 2022

6th October 202210th October 20225884

Spain’s Senate house has approved a landmark bill that will ban expressions of support for the former dictator Francisco Franco, and seek to bring ‘justice’ to the victims...

Madrid’s Prado Museum to investigate if art was confiscated during Franco regime

News Desk22nd September 202228th September 2022

22nd September 202228th September 20223545

Madrid’s El Prado Museum is investigating the provenance of 62 works of art in its collection to determine whether some of them derive from confiscations...

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