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Guardia Civil divers place a sign on the unexploded device

Explosive device is discovered just 400m from popular tourist beach on Spain’s Costa Blanca

SPECIALISED divers from Spain’s Guardia Civil police force discovered an explosive device last month just 400 metres from a popular tourist beach on the country’s

7 Aug, 2024 @ 11:22

Alicante·Lead

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez makes surprise visit to exhumation site at infamous Civil War monument in Madrid

SPAIN’S Socialist Party Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez made a surprise visit today to the Valley of Cuelgamuros monument, where he saw first hand exhumation work

4 Apr, 2024 @ 13:53

Lead·Madrid·Politics

HUNGER ERA: How Spain’s hidden famine of the 1930s and 40s changed a whole nation’s eating habits

EVERYONE has heard of the Spanish Civil War, but historians have largely glossed over the devastating famine that followed. Barely discussed, like a dark secret,

10 Jun, 2023 @ 10:00

Food & Drink·Lead·Must Read·Other News

EXPLORING SPAIN: The search for Lorca’s grave in Andalucia

By Carlos Pranger WHEN the Spanish Civil War broke out in 1936, Gerald Brenan was living with his wife Gamel Woolsey in Churriana, a village

3 Jun, 2023 @ 12:00

Andalucia·Exploring Spain·Lead·Olive Press Travel

Bomb squad called in after ‘explosive device’ found on a beach in Spain’s Marbella

BOMB disposal experts have safely removed an explosive device, believed to be from the Spanish Civil War, from a beach in Marbella. The artefact was

1 Jun, 2023 @ 08:45

Lead·Malaga·Other News

Founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, Primo de Rivera, to be exhumed from monument on Monday

THE REMAINS of the founder of Spain’s fascist Falange party, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, are to be exhumed by his family from the Valley

20 Apr, 2023 @ 17:15

Lead·National News·Politics

Picasso Museum of Malaga accused of whitewashing Francoism

THE Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory (ARMH) has called on the Junta to ‘stop whitewashing’ Francoism. The criticism revolves around an explanatory panel

14 Apr, 2023 @ 08:15

La Cultura·Lead·Malaga·Other News

Mass grave from Civil War being dug up on Mallorca beach

Excavators in Mallorca have begun digging up a beach in search of victims of the Civil War. Archeologists believe there may be a mass grave

26 Mar, 2023 @ 18:00

Balearic Islands·La Cultura·Lead·Mallorca

Costa Blanca city in Spain gets month-long deadline to remove big Francoist memorial

ELCHE council has been given until mid-December to remove a major Francoist symbol in the city. The order to take down the Cross of the

17 Nov, 2022 @ 11:50

Costa Blanca·Lead·Valencian Community

Spanish government sets its sights on Franco-era figures buried in Toledo for next exhumations

SOURCES from the Spanish government have confirmed to reporters that they are already studying the next exhumations of Franco-era military figures, after three coffins were

5 Nov, 2022 @ 12:45

Lead·National News

Franco-era general responsible for 45,000 executions quietly exhumed from basilica in Seville

THE REMAINS of a Franco-era general were removed from the Macarena basilica in Seville last night, an exhumation that was carried out as part of

3 Nov, 2022 @ 16:11

Lead·National News

Mps In Spain Back New Law To Enshrine Memory Of People Killed By Brutal General Franco Regime

Spain’s government to strip Franco and nine other figures from the regime of medals

THE SPANISH government announced on Thursday that it is to strip former dictator Francisco Franco of the Medal of Merit in Labour, an award that

27 Oct, 2022 @ 16:30

Lead·National News

Michael Portillo shares poignant journey following in footsteps of his exiled father who fled Franco during Spain’s Civil War

Former UK minister celebrates his 40th wedding anniversary and retraces his father’s steps during his civil war escape from Spain

26 Aug, 2022 @ 13:30

Exploring Spain·La Cultura·Lead·Olive Press Travel

Rare Codex Turns Up After 84 Years When It Disappeared During Civil War In Spain

Rare medieval codex turns up 84 years after vanishing during Civil War in Spain

A rare codex dating back to the 13th century has been recovered in Spain after it went missing in 1938. A soldier 84 years ago

10 Jun, 2022 @ 15:45

La Cultura·Lead

Army captain in Spain faces sack for ordering soldiers to kneel of front of General Franco mausoleum

Army captain in Spain faces sack for ordering soldiers to kneel outside General Franco mausoleum

SPAIN’S armed forces have suspended an army captain after video footage appeared showing his soldiers kneeling at the former burial site of dictator General Francisco

2 Jun, 2022 @ 18:00

Lead·National News

Murcia’s airport set to be renamed after local inventor despite opposition from government in Spain

THE battle to rename Murcia’s international airport at Corvera in honour of a local air pioneer has taken a new turn. The region’s Governing Council,

12 May, 2022 @ 15:45

La Cultura·Lead·Murcia·Politics

PROPERTY: Converted bunker dating from Spanish Civil War offered for sale in downtown Madrid

WHAT once served as a bunker during the Spanish Civil War is now for sale as a modern property in one of Madrid’s most desirable

2 Apr, 2022 @ 11:30

Lead·Madrid·National News·Other News·Property

Refugee Children Escape From Malaga, During The Spanish Civil War

Highway to hell: The tragic story of how thousands of people were slaughtered by Franco’s forces as they fled Malaga during Spain’s Civil War

IN one of Spain’s darkest chapters, thousands of civilians were massacred whilst fleeing from Malaga to Almeria in what has been dubbed ‘southern Spain’s Guernica’.

20 Feb, 2022 @ 11:15

Gibraltar·La Cultura·Lead·Malaga

Glass eye found during the exhumation of remains of a mass grave at cemetery in Spain helps to identify body

THE skeletal remains of a man executed at the hands of General Franco has been uncovered in Alicante – and thanks to his ‘perfectly’ preserved

20 Jan, 2022 @ 16:31

Alicante·Lead·Other News

Madrid Judges Say Dove Painting Artist Did Not Desecrate Tomb Of Spanish Dictator General Franco

Madrid court acquits artist of desecrating Spanish dictator General Franco’s tomb with red paint

AN artist who painted a dove and a slogan on top of dictator General Franco’s tomb has been acquitted of desecration. Madrid’s Provincial Court also

18 Jan, 2022 @ 16:00

Crime & Law·La Cultura·Lead·Madrid·National News

Spain’s Castellon spends €26 million on memorial statue to civil war dead

CASTELLON authorities have allocated €26,000 euros to the construction of a memorial statue which will pay homage to the victims of the Spanish Civil War.

3 Nov, 2021 @ 10:30

Castellon·Lead·Valencian Community

Dozens of Spanish Civil War victims found in mass graves in northern Spain

THE grim task of exhuming, identifying and reburying dozens of victims of the Spanish Civil War has started after two mass graves were found. Archaeologists

26 Oct, 2021 @ 17:15

Lead·National News

Spain to begin project to exhume civil war victims at Valley of the Fallen

SPAIN’S €650,000 project to exhume and identify victims of the country’s Civil War that were buried at the Valley of the Fallen site outside Madrid

25 Jun, 2021 @ 17:15

Lead·Madrid

A NATION DIVIDED: Spain’s bloody past is still causing divisions today

IMAGINE if, rather than losing the Second World War and committing suicide in Berlin, Adolf Hitler had successfully invaded the British Isles and ruled them

14 Feb, 2021 @ 13:55

Lead·National News