Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government said on Monday.

He joined a military coup, fought ruthlessly in the Spanish Civil War, and emerged as the dictator of Spain. For almost 40 years, Franco worked to transform the country into a bastion of tradition.

“Franco inaugurated the monument on the 1st of April 1959, the 20th anniversary of his victory in the Civil War,” the government said in a statement justifying its plans for the memorial.

MOIA, Spain (Reuters) -Spanish artist Eugenio Merino and a U.S. art collective used a lifelike replica of Spanish dictator ...

Madrid, Spain – The remains of one of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco‘s most brutal Civil War henchmen, General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, were discreetly exhumed in the small hours of ...

Experts on Monday began exhuming Spanish civil war victims from a huge basilica near Madrid, where the body of former dictator Francisco Franco once lay, the government said.

For six decades, Spain told a dictator's story. For the past 22 years, citizens have been creating a new memory landscape. Built by political prisoners, the Valle de los Caídos, or Valley of the ...

General Franco and the Nationalist forces won the Spanish Civil War, which came to an end in early 1939. The violence and atrocities from both sides had left at least 500,000 people dead. "Both ...

Ángeles Flórez Peón, memory keeper of Spanish Civil War, dies at 105. She aided leftist guerrillas as a teenager in the 1930s and then led political resistance from self-exile against the ...

As the Spanish Civil War raged between 1936 and 1939, Republican forces took hold of thousands of paintings and sculptures, as well as other valuables, to safeguard them from the conflict.

MADRID -- Forensic scientists have begun exhuming the bodies of 128 victims of the Spanish Civil War from the former mausoleum of General Francisco Franco near Madrid, the government said ...