As the Spanish Civil War raged between 1936 and 1939, Republican forces took hold of thousands of paintings and sculptures, as well as other valuables, to safeguard them from the conflict. When the ...
The Spanish government on Thursday returned seven paintings to the descendants of an ex-Madrid mayor who lost them fleeing Francisco Franco's uprising as the country grapples with the dictator's ...
“Franco burned Gernika… but Franco, for me, was Spain’s saviour from everything.” Rafael Madariaga is talking about the bombing of the northern Spanish town of Gernika on April 26, 1937, during the ...
She was revered as an essential guardian of the country’s memory of war and repression long after the Franco dictatorship. By Adam Nossiter Ángeles Flórez Peón was 17 when she braved mortar and ...
Franco lies buried behind the high altar of a vast basilica hewn into the rock, which is capped by a huge cross. Spains Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to exhume the remains of late ...
A 1975 photo shows Francisco Franco (far right), his wife Carmen Polo (middle) and Prince Juan Carlos (left) at a public event. (Fotograaf Onbekend/Anefo via Wikimedia Commons) (CN) — Spain marked a ...
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the country’s caretaker government can exhume Francisco Franco’s remains from a gigantic mausoleum the military dictator had built outside ...
As Spain marks half a century since the death of General Francisco Franco this week, a significant number of young people now view the brutal Spanish dictator in a positive light. Far from being ...
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