Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MADRID (AP) — A Spanish judge heard evidence Friday of alleged torture during the rule of the country's late dictator Francisco ...

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. When the ...

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A Spanish judge heard evidence Friday of alleged torture during the rule of the country's late dictator Francisco Franco, in what rights groups said was the first case of its kind to be accepted for ...

The Spanish government on Thursday returned seven paintings to the descendants of an ex-Madrid mayor who lost them fleeing Francisco Franco's uprising as the country grapples with the dictator's ...

“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 ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the run-up to the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death on Nov. 20, 2025, the left-leaning Spanish government led a vigil honoring the many victims of the dictator’s ...

Spain has announced it will formally pardon 53 women who were imprisoned under Franco’s dictatorship for “moral” or ideological reasons, a move aimed at recognising their suffering and ...

She was revered as an essential guardian of the country’s memory of war and repression long after the Franco dictatorship. By Adam Nossiter Ángeles Flórez Peón was 17 when she braved mortar and ...

The new socialist government in Madrid wants to remove the remains of former leader Generalissimo Francisco Franco from Valle de Los Caidos (The Valley of the Fallen) where he’s been interred since ...

As Spain marks half a century since the death of General Francisco Franco this week, a significant number of young people now view the brutal Spanish dictator in a positive light. Far from being ...