Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial ... He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years ...

Valley of the Fallen, a site built on Franco’s orders, has become a flashpoint between left and right as the Socialist-led ...

After 50 years of democracy, a growing number of Spain’s youth believe that the country was better off under Franco.

At the Cuelgamuros Valley mausoleum, which served as Franco's tomb until 2019 and where more than 30,000 fighters from both sides of the Civil War are buried ... the Spanish press has reported ...

From the start of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to the end of the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1892-1975), Miro remained a staunch opponent of fascism. Whenever I thought of his art ...

United Nations has called for Spain to overturn a 1977 amnesty law that pardons crimes committed during the 36-year dictatorship of General Francisco Franco ... Spain's civil war and subsequent ...

The Valley of the Fallen, inaugurated in 1959, is a monumental complex built after the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939 ... was commissioned by Gen. Francisco Franco, Spain’s longtime head of ...

Josefina Fortea, 92, was seven when her father Jose, a farm labourer, faced a firing squad sent by General Francisco Franco ... followed Spain’s 1936-39 civil war were returned to their families ...

The Spanish state on Thursday ... by the family last year. Franco took full possession of the palace, bought with public donations in 1938 during the civil war, in his name in 1941, and used ...

the war, and the subsequent dictatorship led by Franco, as well as Argentina's current effort, by invoking the principle of universal jurisdiction, to prosecute Francoists accused of committing ...