Tag: civil war
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Highway to hell: The tragic story of how thousands of people were slaughtered by Franco’s forces as they fled...
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...
Glass eye found during the exhumation of remains of a mass grave at cemetery in Spain helps to identify...
THE skeletal remains of a man executed at the hands of General Franco has been uncovered in Alicante - and thanks to his ‘perfectly’...
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...
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...
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...
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
Valencian government moves to exhume 500 mass graves scattered across the Community following the Spanish Civil War
A YOUNG girl shot and killed for holding a pamphlet in Dolores, a professor dispatched without prior trial in Alicante - these are the...
SHELL SHOCKED: Unexploded BOMB found on property in Spain’s Malaga
AN unexploded bomb has been found at a finca in Andalucia.
Policia Nacional were called to the farm house in Antequera on Wednesday after the...
Secret grave of Franco victims discovered in Madrid cemetery
Thousand of people were shot in Madrid by Franco’s regime following the end of the civil war, the 80th anniversary of which is marked this year
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