Elderly doctor to stand trial for snatching children in Spain’s ‘stolen babies’ scandal
The former gynaecologist will become the first person to stand trial for the scandal that has cast a dark shadow over Spain for decades
New-found documents reveal a concentration camp existed on Costa del Sol
The unpublished documents confirm thousands of prisoners of war were held at the camp in Torremolinos during the Franco era in the 1930s
Eightieth anniversary of bloody battle during Spanish Civil War remembered in new book
La Batalla de Teruel: Guerra total en Espana, takes readers through the battle that claimed the lives of over 140,000 people
Prime property! Villa of former Spanish leader up for sale
A LUXURIOUS villa once owned by Spain’s leader Adolfo Suarez has been put on the market for a cool €13 million. Suarez, who was the
New TV series based on Spanish Civil War whips up Twitter storm
A LEADING American TV producer has been forced to deny he is stirring up political conflict with a new show about an American battalion fighting
Work begins in Spain to exhume bodies of victims from Spanish Civil War
Experts arrived on Monday at the Valley of the Fallen which holds the remains of over 30,000 people from both sides of the civil war
WARPED: Dozens gather in Malaga to pay tribute to Spain’s Dictator General Franco
A GROUP of 40 Malaga locals gathered last night to remember the late Dictator Franco. The group congregated in the gardens of the Cathedral on
TWISTED: Woman ‘snatched’ as a baby in Franco era to be JAILED after Andalucia nun who allegedly stole her sues for defamation
A WOMAN is to be jailed after the nun who allegedly helped steal her from her parents as a baby sued for defamation. Ascensión López,
The British teenage anarchist who tried to kill Franco with explosives hidden under granny’s sweater
The scale of his repression, torture and murder made him a natural target for political campaigns and the morally aware, writes Alastair Stewart.
Expert on Spanish history passes away
A MUCH-LOVED expert on Spanish history whose work was banned by Franco has passed away. British historian Hugh Thomas, an associate of Margaret Thatcher, masterfully
Spanish parliament votes to exhume Franco’s remains
Opposition parties on the left and centre backed a motion 198 votes to one to remove the fascist dictator out of state-funded mausoleum Valle de
Huge former Malaga textile factory to undergo renovation at last
Malaga’s former Intelhorce textile factory, built under Franco’s orders, will be turned into a distribution centre for a children’s clothing firm
One of Franco’s last surviving ministers buried in Andalucia
Jose Utrera Molina has been buried in Nerja, where he lived.
Remembering the thousands killed by Franco forces during Malaga’s N340 massacre
The anniversary has been marked by a series of events
PSOE bid to have dead dictator Franco’s body removed from Madrid’s Valley of the Fallen
The main opposition party’s motion will be debated in parliament
From dictatorship to democracy: The legacy of Spain’s first post-Franco leader
It is 40 years since Suarez's introduction of the civil war 'pact of forgetting' and Spain's first democratic elections
Spanish Civil War Expo pavilion restaged in London
The Spanish Pavilion of the 1937 Paris International World's Fair, which showcased Pablo Picasso’s Guernica and Joan Miro’s The Reaper for the first time in
Catalonia leaders accused of frustrating attempts to return priceless Romanesque artworks
Catalan leaders are being accused of undermining attempts to repatriate priceless Romanesque frescoes
Fight over frescos ramps up Madrid-Catalonia rivalry
Catalan leaders stand accused of undermining attempts to repatriate priceless artworks
Spanish siesta to get the boot as Spain dumps ‘Nazi time’ for GMT
The government is considering replacing the ‘Nazi time zone’ it currently operates in with Greenwich Mean Time
‘Make Spain great again!’: Pro-Franco fascists take to streets in Spain on anniversary of dictator’s death
A gay homeless counter-protestor was violently assaulted
New future for Pamplona fascist war memorial following exhumations
The controversial Monumento a los Caidos in Pamplona could become a ‘historical memory centre’ now that the bones of nine military leaders have been removed.
Spanish Civil War colour documentary airs tonight
THE SHOCKING realities of the Spanish Civil War will be laid bare in a new colour TV documentary. British historian Antony Beever’s Divided Spain: The Civil
Franco exhibition in Spain met with protests and egging
Catalan separatists shouted ‘no fascists on our streets’
Former Franco-era womens’ prison converted into art gallery in Spain
The exhibiting artists have all worked with the themes of suffocation, isolation and resistance
Spain seeking the return of gifts it gave to the Nazis intended to prove the superiority of Aryan race
The gifts include necklaces and human bones