Spanish government unveils its plans to remodel controversial Franco monument
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,...
Valley of the Fallen
Spanish government to publish a list of Franco-era symbols targeted for removal
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...
Sánchez visits Francoist mausoleum to learn about civil war exhumations
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...
Initial forensic work begins to exhume bodies of 128 victims of Civil War
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
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 rules Franco regime ‘illegal’ with new ‘Democratic Memory Law’
The Spanish Congress has approved a new ‘Democratic Memory Law’ that declares illegal the regime of former dictator Francisco Franco and makes the central government...
Spain sacks army captain whose soldiers knelt at Franco memorial
The Spanish armed forces have sacked an army captain after a video emerged showing around 30 soldiers of the officer’s unit kneeling in front of...
New ‘Democratic Memory’ law will help find mass graves of the Franco regime
The Spanish government has approved a new ‘Democratic Memory’ bill to tackle the legacy of Franco’s 1939-1975 dictatorship and the Spanish Civil War that preceded...
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...
‘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....
