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Bizarre mural from the Spanish Civil War featuring Hitler, Mussolini and Franco is discovered in Alicante – but what does it mean?

A MURAL dating back to the Spanish Civil War featuring a soldier hammering the heads of dictators Franco, Hitler, and Mussolini on a dragon has

9 Oct, 2024 @ 14:00

Alicante·La Cultura·Lead

Spain's Emeritus King Juan Carlos asks London court to throw out damages claim from ex-lover

Spain’s disgraced former king Juan Carlos I will publish his memoir next year

JUAN Carlos, Spain’s disgraced and exiled former king, has announced he will publish his memoir next year, vowing to ‘explain my mistakes and bad decisions’

25 Sep, 2024 @ 15:15

Celebrity·Lead

Spain’s Pedro Sanchez is compared to dictator Franco amid row over his ‘fake news’ crackdown

PEDRO Sanchez has been likened to the fascist dictator General Franco amid a row over his controversial media transparency plan designed to crack down on

23 Sep, 2024 @ 10:50

Lead·Politics

Watch: Vox spokesperson mocks Gibraltar and Fabian Picardo as he declares British territory ‘Spanish whether you like it or not’

A SPOKESPERSON for the far-right Vox party has mocked Gibraltar and its chief minister Fabian Picardo in a video filmed on a boat near the

16 Sep, 2024 @ 15:33

Gibraltar·Lead·Politics·Video

Spain’s Culture Ministry starts process to outlaw foundation honouring former dictator Francisco Franco

NEARLY 50 years after the death of Spain’s former dictator Francisco Franco, the Spanish government has just announced that it will start the process to

20 Jun, 2024 @ 16:29

Lead·Politics

Spain’s Iberian lynx is no longer at risk of extinction following years of conservation efforts

THE Iberian lynx is no longer classed as ‘endangered’ on the global red list of threatened species after a two-decade-long conservation effort across the peninsula.

20 Jun, 2024 @ 12:21

Environment·Lead

Revealed: The thousands of Nazi collaborators in Spain who used businesses as fronts for top secret espionage

NEW research has shed light on the espionage activities of thousands of Nazi collaborators and informers who lived double lives in Spain during World War

21 May, 2024 @ 12:25

Catalunya·Lead·Politics

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

La Liga’s Vox-voting boss insists Spain is ‘NOT racist’, despite rising abuse inside football grounds

LA Liga president Javier Tebas has claimed that Spain is less racist than ‘any other country’, despite a rise in racist abuse inside football grounds.

22 Mar, 2024 @ 12:13

Lead·Sport

Almost 100 victims of Spain’s dark Franco era are discovered in Granada: Remains show signs of torture and bullet wounds to the head

A SERIES of excavations have unearthed the harrowing remains of dozens of victims of the Franco regime in a ravine of ‘horror, death, and tragedy’.

11 Sep, 2023 @ 13:30

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Popular Party candidate for prime minister pledges to prohibit summer elections if he wins office

THE POPULAR PARTY’S candidate for prime minister, Alberto Nuñez Feijoo, on Thursday pledged to prohibit general elections from taking place in the summer months of

20 Jul, 2023 @ 18:00

Politics

LORCA’S LEGACY: On the trail of the famous poet in Spain’s Granada

JUNE 2023 marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Frederico García Lorca. One of Spain’s most celebrated literary figures, the influential poet and playwright

17 Jun, 2023 @ 09:50

La Cultura·Lead·Olive Press Travel·Other News

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

Barcelona mayor Ada Colau casts her vote

Spaniards brave the rain to vote in 2023 regional and local elections

MILLIONS OF SPANIARDS braved rain showers to keep their date with the polling booths on Sunday, as elections were held in 12 of the country’s

28 May, 2023 @ 17:54

Lead·Politics

Judge pauses exhumations of Franco victims from controversial mausoleum in Spain

Falangists give fascist salutes as they pay homage to Primo de Rivera in Madrid

WITH THEIR arms raised in fascist salutes, around 200 people paid homage on Saturday to the founder of Spain’s Falange party, Jose Antonio Primo de

30 Apr, 2023 @ 14:30

Lead·Madrid·National News·Politics

Despite exhumation from war monument, Franco and his new resting place are still costing the Spanish state €10,000 a year

IN OCTOBER 2019, the Spanish government finally moved the body of former dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen monument, transferring the remains

28 Apr, 2023 @ 17:15

Lead·Madrid·National 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

Police officer in Spain faces sexual abuse charge for grabbing breasts of Femen protestor

AN OFFICER from Spain’s National Police force has been called to appear in court to face accusations of sexual abuse after he grabbed the breasts

12 Apr, 2023 @ 19:30

Lead·Madrid·National News

A story of change: Spain’s move to democracy and the women’s rights that followed

While men and women are treated equally by law, many women still report sexist behaviour and ‘machista’ attitudes. Some of the most outmoded attitudes hark

8 Mar, 2023 @ 17:00

La Cultura·Lead

Spain’s government strips notorious police torturer of medals

THE SPANISH government has ordered all of the medals and other decorations received by Franco-era police officers to be revised, including those of the notorious

1 Jan, 2023 @ 14:15

Lead·National News

Exhumations of Republican soldiers to restart at Spain’s Civil War ‘monument’ after legal appeals from right-wing groups flounder

A TEAM of forensic scientists that has been recruited by the Spanish central government will on Monday restart work to recover the bodies of 110

4 Dec, 2022 @ 13:30

Lead·Madrid·National News

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

Explainer: What will be the effects of Spain’s new Democratic Memory Law?

EARLIER this month, the Socialist Party-led central government approved a new piece of legislation: the Democratic Memory Law. The legislation passed with 128 votes in

12 Oct, 2022 @ 12:45

Lead·National News