Tag: franco
The British teenage anarchist who tried to kill Franco with explosives hidden under granny’s sweater
The scale of his repression, torture and murder made him a natural target for political campaigns and the morally aware, writes Alastair Stewart.
Expert on Spanish history passes away
A MUCH-LOVED expert on Spanish history whose work was banned by Franco has passed away.
British historian Hugh Thomas, an associate of Margaret Thatcher,...
Spanish parliament votes to exhume Franco’s remains
Opposition parties on the left and centre backed a motion 198 votes to one to remove the fascist dictator out of state-funded mausoleum Valle de los Caidos
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
One of Franco’s last surviving ministers buried in Andalucia
Jose Utrera Molina has been buried in Nerja, where he lived.
Remembering the thousands killed by Franco forces during Malaga’s N340 massacre
The anniversary has been marked by a series of events
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
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
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 public, has been recreated in London
Catalonia leaders accused of frustrating attempts to return priceless Romanesque artworks
Catalan leaders are being accused of undermining attempts to repatriate priceless Romanesque frescoes
Fight over frescos ramps up Madrid-Catalonia rivalry
Catalan leaders stand accused of undermining attempts to repatriate priceless artworks
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
‘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
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.
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...
Franco exhibition in Spain met with protests and egging
Catalan separatists shouted ‘no fascists on our streets’
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
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
Franco and Himmler ‘tribute’ at Spanish fiesta sparks outrage
Residents felt the images honoured the former Spanish dictator and Nazi officer
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
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
Spain marks 40 years since Franco’s death
At least 16 Catholic churches are to hold services
German government is paying pensions of Spanish Nazi volunteers
Parliamentary enquiry reveals German taxpayer is funding 41 Blue Division veterans' pensions
Car covered in fascist symbols banned by Catalan town hall
Provocative political artists wanted to drive Nazi car through Figueres town centre
Young woman murdered by Franco firing squad to be honoured
La Carolina Town Hall, in Jaen is to make Ana Lopez Gallego an honorary mayor