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Huge former Malaga textile factory to undergo renovation at last

Malaga’s former Intelhorce textile factory, built under Franco’s orders, will be turned into a distribution centre for a children’s clothing firm

2 May, 2017 @ 13:00

Lead·Malaga·Property

One of Franco’s last surviving ministers buried in Andalucia

Jose Utrera Molina has been buried in Nerja, where he lived.

24 Apr, 2017 @ 12:37

La Cultura·Lead·Politics

Remembering the thousands killed by Franco forces during Malaga’s N340 massacre

The anniversary has been marked by a series of events

19 Feb, 2017 @ 12:02

La Cultura·Lead·Malaga·National News·Politics

PSOE bid to have dead dictator Franco’s body removed from Madrid’s Valley of the Fallen

The main opposition party’s motion will be debated in parliament

18 Feb, 2017 @ 10:05

Crime & Law·Lead·National News·Politics

From dictatorship to democracy: The legacy of Spain’s first post-Franco leader

It is 40 years since Suarez's introduction of the civil war 'pact of forgetting' and Spain's first democratic elections

5 Feb, 2017 @ 10:00

Spanish Civil War Expo pavilion restaged in London

The Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 Paris International World's Fair, which showcased Pablo Picasso’s Guernica and Joan Miro’s The Reaper for the first time in

3 Feb, 2017 @ 18:00

La Cultura·Lead

Catalonia leaders accused of frustrating attempts to return priceless Romanesque artworks

Catalan leaders are being accused of undermining attempts to repatriate priceless Romanesque frescoes

22 Jan, 2017 @ 11:00

La Cultura·Lead

Fight over frescos ramps up Madrid-Catalonia rivalry

Catalan leaders stand accused of undermining attempts to repatriate priceless artworks

14 Jan, 2017 @ 11:30

Spanish siesta to get the boot as Spain dumps ‘Nazi time’ for GMT

The government is considering replacing the ‘Nazi time zone’ it currently operates in with Greenwich Mean Time

15 Dec, 2016 @ 10:18

‘Make Spain great again!’: Pro-Franco fascists take to streets in Spain on anniversary of dictator’s death

A gay homeless counter-protestor was violently assaulted

21 Nov, 2016 @ 14:59

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·National News·Politics

New future for Pamplona fascist war memorial following exhumations

The controversial Monumento a los Caidos in Pamplona could become a ‘historical memory centre’ now that the bones of nine military leaders have been removed.

20 Nov, 2016 @ 09:30

Lead·National News·Politics

Spanish Civil War colour documentary airs tonight

THE SHOCKING realities of the Spanish Civil War will be laid bare in a new colour TV documentary. British historian Antony Beever’s Divided Spain: The Civil

17 Nov, 2016 @ 15:45

Franco exhibition in Spain met with protests and egging

Catalan separatists shouted ‘no fascists on our streets’

22 Oct, 2016 @ 09:24

Former Franco-era womens’ prison converted into art gallery in Spain

The exhibiting artists have all worked with the themes of suffocation, isolation and resistance

9 Oct, 2016 @ 14:00

Spain seeking the return of gifts it gave to the Nazis intended to prove the superiority of Aryan race

The gifts include necklaces and human bones

8 Sep, 2016 @ 13:01

Gay couples are huge fans of the hotel room where Franco slept the night before civil war

Dreaming of grandeur

26 Jul, 2016 @ 17:00

Lead·Travel News

Franco and Himmler ‘tribute’ at Spanish fiesta sparks outrage

Residents felt the images honoured the former Spanish dictator and Nazi officer

17 May, 2016 @ 17:08

Flight from Franco: A P.O.W recalls his great escape from the Valley of the Fallen

Nicolas Sanchez-Albornoz recalls his escape from a prison camp in 1948

27 Nov, 2015 @ 12:30

Valley of the Fallen: General Franco’s final resting place

Forty years after Franco, his tomb beneath one of the Civil War’s last battlefields is still causing controversy

26 Nov, 2015 @ 17:06

Spain marks 40 years since Franco’s death

At least 16 Catholic churches are to hold services

20 Nov, 2015 @ 10:23

Featured·La Cultura·National News

German government is paying pensions of Spanish Nazi volunteers

Parliamentary enquiry reveals German taxpayer is funding 41 Blue Division veterans' pensions

6 Nov, 2015 @ 17:41