Madrid City Hall has confirmed it will change the names of 30 streets in the capital that currently honour people connected to the regime of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco.
In a surprising move, the radical left party of the Mayor of the Spanish capital, abstained from a vote on removing all street names related to former dictator, General Francisco Franco.
More than 1,000 people marched through the streets of Madrid on Sunday calling for official recognition of crimes committed during the era of dictator Francisco Franco, 40 years after his death.
It's been forty years since the death of Gen Franco brought an end to Spain’s fascist dictatorship and set the nation on the path to democracy. But how has Spain changed?
Campaigning lawyer Baltasar Garzón has called for late dictator Francisco Franco's remains to be removed from their official resting place, where he still lies next to thousands of his victims.
Forty years after the death of Francisco Franco and historians are still working to debunk myths that the Spanish dictator spun about himself to hold on to power for decades.
Berlin is still honouring an agreement struck by dictator Francisco Franco to pay pensions to fascist volunteers who signed up to fight for Hitler, it has emerged.
An attempt to finally solve one of Spain’s most enduring mysteries is underway as archaoeologists try for a third time to locate the remains of the nation’s most celebrated modern poet and playwright.
A memorial museum has opened at the Camp de Rivesaltes where many refugees fleeing Franco's Spain were interned before being sent to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps.
Victims of Spain's former dictatorship and their families on Saturday launched a campaign for a "truth commission" to shed light on unsolved crimes of the period.
Spain's Carolina Marin took it in her stride when a Spanish national anthem associated with Franco's right-wing dictatorship echoed Sunday in celebration of the defence of her women's singles title at the badminton world championships in Indonesia.
The latest signing to Real Jaén FC wore a T-shirt printed with the face of the fascist dictator and after causing a stir claimed not to have a clue who the man was.
On the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War, Spain’s new mayors are making a dedicated push to rid the nation of the long shadow cast by fascist dictator Francisco Franco.
Manuela Carmena, the new left-wing mayor of Madrid, is set to get rid of all street signs bearing references to the late dictator Francisco Franco, replacing them with the names of illustrious women and local heroes.
The Spanish government has blocked the declassification of archives dating from the Spanish Civil War and subsequent fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco arguing that it is of low importance.
An ill-advised photo of officers from the Spanish Civil Guard posing in front of a statue of the fascist dictator Francisco Franco raised more than a few eyebrows across Spain.
A survey of Millennials in Spain has revealed that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is a more hated figure than the Francisco Franco, who imposed a 36-year fascist dictatorship.
Four decades after the death of dictator Francisco Franco, Spain has not completely turned the page on his dictatorship as dozens of monuments honouring his regime are still scattered across the country.
