Mass grave shock in Malaga: 73 Civil War victims exhumed – one in five were women
GRIM new discoveries have been made in a mass grave at Campillos cemetery in Malaga, where archaeologists have recovered the remains of 73 people executed
Explosive device is discovered just 400m from popular tourist beach on Spain’s Costa Blanca
SPECIALISED divers from Spain’s Guardia Civil police force discovered an explosive device last month just 400 metres from a popular tourist beach on the country’s
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez makes surprise visit to exhumation site at infamous Civil War monument in Madrid
SPAIN’S Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made a surprise visit today to the Valley of Cuelgamuros monument, where he saw first hand exhumation work
HUNGER ERA: How Spain’s hidden famine of the 1930s and 40s changed a whole nation’s eating habits
EVERYONE has heard of the Spanish Civil War, but historians have largely glossed over the devastating famine that followed. Barely discussed, like a dark secret,
EXPLORING SPAIN: The search for Lorca’s grave in Andalucia
By Carlos Pranger WHEN the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Gerald Brenan was living with his wife Gamel Woolsey in Churriana, a village
Bomb squad called in after ‘explosive device’ found on a beach in Spain’s Marbella
BOMB disposal experts have safely removed an explosive device, believed to be from the Spanish Civil War, from a beach in Marbella. The artefact was
Founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, Primo de Rivera, to be exhumed from monument on Monday
THE REMAINS of the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, are to be exhumed by his family from the Valley
Picasso Museum of Malaga accused of whitewashing Francoism
THE Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has called on the Junta to ‘stop whitewashing’ Francoism. The criticism revolves around an explanatory panel
Mass grave from Civil War being dug up on Mallorca beach
Excavators in Mallorca have begun digging up a beach in search of victims of the Civil War. Archeologists believe there may be a mass grave
Costa Blanca city in Spain gets month-long deadline to remove big Francoist memorial
ELCHE council has been given until mid-December to remove a major Francoist symbol in the city. The order to take down the Cross of the
Spanish government sets its sights on Franco-era figures buried in Toledo for next exhumations
SOURCES from the Spanish government have confirmed to reporters that they are already studying the next exhumations of Franco-era military figures, after three coffins were
Franco-era general responsible for 45,000 executions quietly exhumed from basilica in Seville
THE REMAINS of a Franco-era general were removed from the Macarena basilica in Seville last night, an exhumation that was carried out as part of
Spain’s government to strip Franco and nine other figures from the regime of medals
THE SPANISH government announced on Thursday that it is to strip former dictator Francisco Franco of the Medal of Merit in Labour, an award that
Michael Portillo shares poignant journey following in footsteps of his exiled father who fled Franco during Spain’s Civil War
Former UK minister celebrates his 40th wedding anniversary and retraces his father’s steps during his civil war escape from Spain
Rare medieval codex turns up 84 years after vanishing during Civil War in Spain
A rare codex dating back to the 13th century has been recovered in Spain after it went missing in 1938. A soldier 84 years ago
Army captain in Spain faces sack for ordering soldiers to kneel outside General Franco mausoleum
SPAIN’S armed forces have suspended an army captain after video footage appeared showing his soldiers kneeling at the former burial site of dictator General Francisco
Murcia’s airport set to be renamed after local inventor despite opposition from government in Spain
THE battle to rename Murcia’s international airport at Corvera in honour of a local air pioneer has taken a new turn. The region’s Governing Council,
PROPERTY: Converted bunker dating from Spanish Civil War offered for sale in downtown Madrid
WHAT once served as a bunker during the Spanish Civil War is now for sale as a modern property in one of Madrid’s most desirable
Highway to hell: The tragic story of how thousands of people were slaughtered by Franco’s forces as they fled Malaga during Spain’s Civil War
IN one of Spain’s darkest chapters, thousands of civilians were massacred whilst fleeing from Malaga to Almeria in what has been dubbed ‘southern Spain’s Guernica’.
Glass eye found during the exhumation of remains of a mass grave at cemetery in Spain helps to identify body
THE skeletal remains of a man executed at the hands of General Franco has been uncovered in Alicante – and thanks to his ‘perfectly’ preserved
Madrid court acquits artist of desecrating Spanish dictator General Franco’s tomb with red paint
AN artist who painted a dove and a slogan on top of dictator General Franco’s tomb has been acquitted of desecration. Madrid’s Provincial Court also
Spain’s Castellon spends €26 million on memorial statue to civil war dead
CASTELLON authorities have allocated €26,000 euros to the construction of a memorial statue which will pay homage to the victims of the Spanish Civil War.
Dozens of Spanish Civil War victims found in mass graves in northern Spain
THE grim task of exhuming, identifying and reburying dozens of victims of the Spanish Civil War has started after two mass graves were found. Archaeologists
Spain to begin project to exhume civil war victims at Valley of the Fallen
SPAIN’S €650,000 project to exhume and identify victims of the country’s Civil War that were buried at the Valley of the Fallen site outside Madrid
A NATION DIVIDED: Spain’s bloody past is still causing divisions today
IMAGINE if, rather than losing the Second World War and committing suicide in Berlin, Adolf Hitler had successfully invaded the British Isles and ruled them
Spanish Government tightens restrictions on Yemeni refugees entering Spain, amid civil war that has killed 100,000 people
The Yemeni Civil War which has been ongoing since 2015 has claimed the lives of more than 100,000 people