Experts on Monday began inspections of a vast mausoleum where dictator Francisco Franco is buried along with thousands of victims of Spain's civil war, in preparation for the first exhumations of some of the bodies
Ever wanted to live like a dictator? A real estate firm has released a bizarre video clearly hoping to interest admirers of the fascist dictator Francisco Franco in buying the Galician manor where he and his family spent their summer holidays.
The eldest grandson of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was sentenced to 30 months in jail Thursday for deliberately ramming a police car following a high-speed chase.
As their crucial regional election nears, separatists in Catalonia are accusing the Spanish government of acting like the late dictator Francisco Franco, in a country that has yet to heal the wounds of his regime.
The Francisco Franco Foundation has chosen to run guided tours of the palatial retreat in Galicia where Spain’s dictator and his family spent their summer holidays claiming it’s “an excellent opportunity to show the general public the greatness of the figure of Francisco Franco”.
Spain’s congress has voted in favour of digging up dictator Francisco Franco and removing his remains from the controversial Valley of the Fallen monument.
On Tuesday Spain’s congress is debating whether to exhume the remains of General Franco from the giant mausoleum crowned with a 150 meter high granite cross on a hillside outside Madrid.
Mourners raised their arms in a fascist salute as one of the last ministers to serve under former Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, Jose Utrera Molina, was buried Saturday.
Spain's Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request to exhume the remains of late dictator Francisco Franco from a mausoleum near Madrid and rebury them elsewhere.
A former doctor will stand trial in Madrid for allegedly stealing a newborn from her mother and giving her to another woman, a practice thought to have affected thousands of families during Spain's dictatorship.
Amnesty International on Wednesday accused the Spanish authorities of systematically obstructing probes into crimes committed during the 1936-9 civil war and Francisco Franco's subsequent dictatorship.
Sunday marked the 41st anniversary of the death of General Francisco Franco and far right supporters nostalgic for the dictatorship took to the streets.
Barcelona's Picasso Museum unveiled an exhibition on "Cubism and War" on Thursday depicting how one of the most influential artistic styles of the 20th century survived the First World War.
The municipality of Barcelona on Monday unveiled a controversial exhibition on the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, which was promptly met with a hail of eggs by angry opponents.
The remains of two generals who played key roles in the July 1936 coup led by Francisco Franco that sparked the Spanish Civil War will be removed from Pamplona’s Monument to the Fallen.
Archaeological treasures excavated from a Visigoth cemetery on the plains of Castilla y Leon during the 1930s might well have strengthened links between Nazi Germany and fascist Spain but 75 years after they were presented as a gift to Himmler, Spain wants them back.
A Spanish town has come under fire after the faces of Francisco Franco and Heinrich Himmler were projected onto its castle as part of a local festival.
A Spanish court has for the first time authorised the exhumation of bodies from the Valley of the Fallen, a vast mausoleum where dictator Francisco Franco is buried along with thousands of victims of Spain's civil war, according to a ruling published Monday.
The first ever film made about the horrific bombing of the Basque town during the Spanish Civil War will premiere at the Malaga Film Festival on Tuesday.
Two great-grandsons of the fascist dictator, who ruled Spain with an iron fist until his death in 1975, have been named in the so-called Panama Papers.
A lawyer has pushed his fight to eliminate Franco era symbols from Spain further by filing a suit to re-name 11 towns that honour generals and the dictator himself.
