OPINION: Why is Spain still failing when it comes to transparency?
THE Olive Press has recently reported on how dismal many of Spain’s town halls are when it comes to transparency. And now comes the confirmation
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
EXECUTED: Freedom fighters from Spain’s Franco era exhumed in Costa Blanca town revealing bullet wounds to the head
SEVEN bodies out of 14 exhumed from in Alicante are believed to be of freedom fighters that were executed during the height of Franco’s Spanish
Dictator Franco concentration camp with ‘mass graves’ nearby to be rebuilt as information centre on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ALBATERA’S concentration camp, discovered only in 2020, is to become an information and interpretation centre. One of the derelict barrack buildings at the site will
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.
Legal row brews over Franco’s flowery bathroom sink at dictator’s summer palace
A FLOWERY basin where General Francisco Franco carried out his daily ablutions when at his summer palace in Galicia is at the centre of a
Barcelona’s People’s Olympiad: The story of the 1936 Protest Olympics that were derailed by the Spanish Civil War
BY Shannon Chaffers THE Tokyo Olympic Games will soon come to a close despite an initial rocky start under a shroud of controversy with Japan
Court halts efforts to remove Franco monument in Catalunya after campaign by locals
A COURT has delayed an attempt to remove a monument inaugurated by General Francisco Franco to celebrate a victory during the Spanish Civil War after
STOP FASCISM: Two participants in far-right march in Spain’s Valencia become the first to be fined for displaying Franco symbols
Glorifying fascism is a very serious offence punished with fines of between €2,000 and €10,000.
Digging for Franco’s victims: British team from Cranfield University join search for Spain’s Civil War dead
A TEAM of British archaeologists have started to exhume and identify victims executed by the Franco regime after the Spanish Civil War. Several bodies with
Valley of the Fallen: How archaelogists are planning a massive dig at Franco’s legacy
A NEW look at the lives of the prisoners who built the Valley of Fallen aims to give it a more acceptable spin, writes Heather
Spain’s Palma de Mallorca ‘erases’ Franco’s memory by renaming streets linked to dictator
Mayor Jose Hila said that ‘erasing Franco's heritage from the streets was not only a legal obligation, but also a moral obligation towards his victims’
Historical memory: Barcelona university enlisted to document Spain’s Valley of the Fallen victims
FAMILIES of the victims buried at the Valley of the Fallen will soon receive information on their loved ones thanks to a new collaboration between
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
THE FALL OF FRANCO: Valencia Guardia Civil remove fascist symbols from city barracks
Shields had previously been taken down from schools, churches, and army headquarters
Spain’s Cordoba changes the name of two streets back to names of people associated with the Franco regime
TWO streets in Cordoba have reverted their names back to what they used to be a year ago.
International Women’s Day: We sit down with a feisty Franco survivor honoured for her heroics in fascist, male-dominated Spain
‘TO tell a woman everything she cannot do, is to tell her what she can’ is a Spanish proverb that perfectly fits Isabel Marquez Fexias
EXPLAINER: Why some renters in Madrid pay as little as €7 a month
Quick thinking property investors are, however, jumping on these properties as the landlords are wanting to wash their hands of the commitment
Feminist protesters bare their chests at neo-fascists commemorating Franco’s death in Spain’s Madrid.
The women had the slogans ‘neither honour or glory in fascism’ written on their torsos and ‘stop 20-n' on their backs
As Spain’s General Election looms, Heather Galloway recalls her day watching Franco be exhumed from his Madrid tomb
As we watched, alongside me there were murmurings of indignation and rage
The Olive Press sent Heather Galloway to Madrid to witness a moment of Spanish history
A short while after, the helicopter carrying Franco could be seen rising overhead and a cry went up of ‘Franco lives!’
OPINION: Franco’s last day in the spotlight let Spain breathe clearly again
Finally a mass murderer has been moved away from the 30,000 he killed.
Franco sympathisers gather at Valley of the Fallen amid tight security as Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco is exhumed
The exhumation has been fiercely criticised by Franco sympathisers and far-right party Vox.
Monks say Spain’s government can’t exhume dictator Franco’s body because he is buried in ‘sacred place’
The Abbey of the Valley of the Fallen sits on ground under which Franco is buried.
Spain’s Supreme Court gives go ahead for reburial of former dictator Francisco Franco
Pedro Sanchez’s socialist government had pledged to move the ex-tyrant‘s body from underneath the monument.
Jack Gaioni explores the horrors of a Civil War concentration camp and Franco’s grip on the Spanish press
IF you were hoping for a ‘feel good’ article, read no further. If you were hoping for some logical, ‘moral-to-the story account’ – again, read