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Heartless fraudster cons elderly Benidorm lady of over €40,000 in bogus search for remains of parents killed in the Spanish Civil War

A conman swindled €43,600 from a 91-year-old Benidorm woman in a bogus search to find the remains of her parents who died in the Spanish

19 May, 2021 @ 13:30

Benidorm·Costa Blanca·Crime & Law·Lead

Never forgotten: Exhumations to finally close chapter on civil war tragedy in Spain’s Granada

THE remains of over 300 people executed without trial then tossed into mass graves are to finally be exhumed. The victims from Granada include teachers,

25 Apr, 2021 @ 14:15

Lead

She’s Dynamite! (literally): Civil War heroine who took the fight to Spain’s men

Dynamite! It’s a form of slang that refers to the essence of something rather than the explosive device. For example, we might say: “Penelope Cruz

28 Mar, 2021 @ 11:17

Columnists·Jack Gaioni: Jack's Corner·Lead

Robert Capa iconic photo of bomb-damaged building in SPanish Civil War in Madrid

IN PICS: The extraordinary legacy of Robert Capa’s iconic shot of bomb-damaged building in Spain’s Madrid

A photograph snapped by famous war photographer Robert Capa of a bombed out building in Madrid’s southern district of Vallecas during the Spanish Civil War

19 Mar, 2021 @ 08:45

Lead·Madrid

1200px Spa 2014 San Lorenzo De El Escorial Valley Of The Fallen (valle De Los Caídos)

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

15 Mar, 2021 @ 18:30

La Cultura·Lead

UN apologies after attributing Guernica bombing to Spain’s republican forces who were in fact victims of the massacre

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the error was a ‘horrendous mistake.’

21 Sep, 2019 @ 10:00

La Cultura·Lead·National News

Bullets found in Andalucia city attributed to ‘murders’ of the Spanish Civil War

It is thought that executions carried out by Republicans between July 19 and August 8 took place at the burial site during the war.

9 Sep, 2019 @ 16:33

Lead·Malaga

Spain’s Government SEIZES former dictator General Franco’s €5 million summer palace over its ‘fraudulent’ sale

It comes as Pedro Sanchez’s PSOE administration has pushed on with a plan to exhume the remains of the Fascist dictator

12 Jul, 2019 @ 13:22

Crime & Law·Lead·National News

DIVIDED: Experts and locals on digging up dictator Franco from the Valley of the Fallen in special Olive Press report from Madrid

Spain is a country still divided between those nostalgic for the Franco days and those who abhorred El Generalisimo

22 Sep, 2018 @ 09:22

Lead·National News·Politics

New-found documents reveal a concentration camp existed on Costa del Sol

The unpublished documents confirm thousands of prisoners of war were held at the camp in Torremolinos during the Franco era in the 1930s

14 May, 2018 @ 16:43

Lead·Malaga·Other News

Eightieth anniversary of bloody battle during Spanish Civil War remembered in new book

La Batalla de Teruel: Guerra total en Espana, takes readers through the battle that claimed the lives of over 140,000 people

13 May, 2018 @ 16:38

La Cultura·Lead

Work begins in Spain to exhume bodies of victims from Spanish Civil War

Experts arrived on Monday at the Valley of the Fallen which holds the remains of over 30,000 people from both sides of the civil war

24 Apr, 2018 @ 16:02

Lead·National News

Spain’s most inspiring expat women

INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day, March 8, celebrates the achievements of women globally and is a call to action for implementing gender parity. To commemorate the day,

8 Mar, 2018 @ 12:03

La Cultura·Lead

Hugh Thomas death marks passing of one of Spanish Civil War’s greatest chroniclers

Copies of book were smuggled across French border during Franco dictatorship

11 Jun, 2017 @ 14:39

Lead·Mallorca

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

12 May, 2017 @ 11:10

Lead·Politics

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

New book charts turbulent history of Spain

The Reign in Spain was written by William Kristjan Arnold to answer the repeated questions of friends and family about its modern history

29 Nov, 2016 @ 08:30

La Cultura

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

La Cultura·Lead·National News

Last British member of the Spanish Civil War’s International Brigade dies aged 98

Seaman Stan Hilton jumped ship in Alicante to fight for British Battalion

12 Nov, 2016 @ 16:08

Lead·National News

New dig for murdered Spanish Civil War poet Federico Garcia Lorca begins near Granada

Team hopes to uncover answers to one of Spain's greatest mysteries

21 Sep, 2016 @ 14:50

Granada·La Cultura·Lead

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

Secret army: Remembering the Spanish Civil War 80 years later

Remembering the largely American volunteers who risked everything to fight fascism

18 Jul, 2016 @ 15:17

La Cultura·Lead·National News

Hilary Benn recalls Spanish Civil War in ISIS ‘fascist’ Commons speech

Labour foreign secretary defies Jeremy Corbyn to vote for military action

3 Dec, 2015 @ 11:08

Lead·Politics

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

16 Oct, 2015 @ 10:20

Jaen·La Cultura

Jeremy Corbyn’s battle for Spanish memorial to International Brigade

New Labour leader has long-standing ties with Spanish Republican cause.

15 Sep, 2015 @ 12:24

Lead·National News

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