He represented a previous tradition of reactionary Catholic nationalism, his worldview forged by Spain’s humiliating loss of ...

“Franco burned Gernika… but Franco, for me, was Spain’s saviour from everything.” Rafael Madariaga is talking about the bombing of the northern Spanish town of Gernika on April 26, 1937, during the ...

Spain's leftist government paid homage on Friday to victims of the country's civil war and the ensuing four-decade rule of General Francisco Franco, ahead of the 50th anniversary of his death. Franco ...

That morning the prisoners heard that Francisco Franco, Spain’s dictator since his victory in the 1936-39 civil war against ...

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Unlike his allies Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco survived World War II, retaining his dictatorial grip on Spain for another 30 years. Even when he died, he avoided the fate of his ...

Spain presented Tuesday a plan to remodel an imposing monument near Madrid that was once the burial site of Francisco Franco, ...

The Spanish government has made it clear that a community of Benedictine monks is no longer welcome at the “Valley of the Fallen,” a Spanish Civil War memorial site not far from Madrid. The government ...